Edison Drawn by “World” Artist
AKA “Blackton Sketches, No. 1,” “Blackton, the Evening World Cartoonist” and “Blackton Sketching Edison” in the USA : [T.A. Edison: Drawing from N.Y. World by Cartoonist Blackton]
(1896) American
B&W : 150 feet
Directed by William Heise

Cast: J. Stuart Blackton [himself].

Edison Manufacturing Company production; distributed by [?] Raff & Gammon? / Cinematography by William Heise. / [?] Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format? / [?] The production is thought to have been shot on the rooftop at Raff & Gammon’s offices on West 28th Street in New York, New York, in either July or August 1896.

Performance: Sketching.

Survival Status: Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.

Listing updated: 10 April 2007.

References: Leyda-Before pp. 10, 80, 96; Magliozzi-Treasures n. 3663; Musser-Emerge pp. 120, 121, 598, 601; Ramsaye-Million p. 275; Shipman-Cinema p. 16.