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Atlantic City Fire Department
(1897) United States of America
B&W : [?] 52 or 311? feet
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: (unknown)
American Mutoscope Company production; distributed by American Mutoscope Company. / © 26 April 1902 by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company [H17043]. Released August 1897. / Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 format. / The production was shot in [?] August? 1897.
Documentary: Actuality.
Synopsis: A horse-drawn fire engine races toward the camera. The horses accidently knock over the camera. // [From Biograph promotional materials] This picture is very notable from the fact that at the end of the scene, after the run-by of various engines and hose wagons, an engine was forced out of its course and ran directly into the Biograph camera, smashing it to bits. The negative was saved out of the wreck and presents a remarkable photographic illusion, inasmuch as one who looks at it gets the effect at the end of the picture, of a fire engine at full tilt dashing directly toward him.
Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (paper print collection) [35mm paper positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Animals: Horses - Firemen - USA: New Jersey: Atlantic City
Listing updated: 1 September 2009.
References: Kerr-Silent p. 17; Musser-Emerge pp. 228, 598; Niver-Early p. 16 : Website-AFI.
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