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Annie Oakley.     Frame enlargement: Silent Era low-res collection.

Cast: Annie Oakley [herself], [?] ? [male assistant].

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 1 November 1894 in the Edison Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey. Musser control number 86.

Performance.

Synopsis: Oakley performs shooting tricks. // [Raff & Gammon catalog, December 1894, page ?] Annie Oakley, The “Little Sure Shot” of the “Wild West,” Exhibition of Rifle Shooting at Glass Balls, etc. $15.00.

Survival Status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (Gordon Hendricks collection) [35mm reference positive], in the Museum of Modern Art film archive, in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences film archive (Ray Phillips collection), and in the Archives du film du Centre national de la cinématographie film archive.

Keywords: Sharpshooting - Weapons: Rifles

Listing updated: 2 January 2009.

References: Film viewing : Blum-Silent p. 7; Bohn-Light p. 9; Fell-History p. 13; Musser-Edison p. 145; Musser-Emerge pp. 78, 597; Pitts-Hollywood p. 2; Ramsaye-Million p. 83; Robinson-Palace p. 44 : Website-LoC.

Home video: DVD.