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Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.
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Cock Fight, no. 2
Also known as [Roosters] : {Cockfight, no. 2}
(1894) United States of America
B&W : 50 feet
Directed by W.K.L. Dickson
Cast: (unknown)
Edison Manufacturing Company production; distributed by [?] Raff & Gammon? / Cinematography by [?] William Heise? / No copyright registration. / Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was shot circa August 1894. Early Kinetograph camera films were shot at approximately 48 frames per second.
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Synopsis: Two roosters are engaged in a cockfight in a small wire enclosed area while two men (and the shadow of a third) look on and gamble on the outcome.
Survival status: Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Birds: Chickens (Roosters) - Cockfights - Gambling
Listing updated: 21 March 2012.
References: Film viewing : Geduld-Birth p. 21; Musser-Before p. 41; Musser-Emerge pp. 78, 600; Ramsaye-Million pp. 83, 107; Robertson-Guinness p. 3; Robinson-Palace pp. 46, 48; Tarbox-Lost p. 27.
Home video: DVD.
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