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  Juan Caicedo.
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Caicedo
Also known as Caicedo, King of the Rope Dancers and Caicedo, King of the Slack Wire in the USA : [Caicedo (With Pole)], [Caicedo, no. 1]
(1894) United States of America
B&W : 37 feet
Directed by W.K.L. Dickson and William Heise

Cast: Juan A. Caicedo [himself].

Edison Manufacturing Company production; distributed by Raff & Gammon. / Cinematography by William Heise. / No copyright registration. / Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot on 25 July 1894 at the Edison laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey. Early Kinetograph camera films were shot at approximately 48 frames per second. The production was shot outside the Black Maria studio on the Edison laboratory grounds.

Performance.

Synopsis: [Raff & Gammon catalog, October 1894, page ?] Caicedo, The “King of the Wire” in his marvelous Slack Wire Performance. 10.00.

Survival status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive (Gordon Hendricks collection) [35mm preservation positive, 35mm viewing positive (FEC 8115)]; and in the Academy Film Archive film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 21 March 2012.

References: Film viewing : Musser-Emerge p. 78; Robinson-Palace p. 45 : Website-LoC.

Home video: DVD.

 
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