Blacksmith Scene

Blacksmith Scene also known as Blacksmith Sceneand Blacksmithing Scene is an 1893 American short blackandwhite silent film directed by William K.L. Dickson, the ScottishFrench inventor who, while under the employ of Thomas Edison, developed the first fully functional motion picture camera. It is historically significant as the first Kinetoscope film shown in public exhibition on May 9, 1893 and is the earliest known example of actors performing a role in a film. In 1995, Blacksmith Scene was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. It is the secondoldest film included in the Registry, after Newark Athlete 1891.

The film was produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company, which had begun making films in 1890 under the direction of one of the earliest pioneers to film William K.L. Dickson. It was filmed entirely within the Black Maria studio at West Orange, New Jersey, in the United States, which is widely referred to as Americas First Movie Studio. It is believed to have been filmed in April 1893 and was shown publicly in a Kinetoscope viewer at the Brooklyn Institute on May 9, 1893.According to the Internet Movie Database the film was made in a 35mm format with an aspect ratio of 1.331. The movie was intended to be displayed through means of a Kinetoscope. ........

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