A day at the circus Thomas A. Edison, Inc. Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) moving image motion picture two-dimensional moving image Actualities (Motion pictures) Silent films. Short films. Nonfiction films. xxu monographic United States Thomas A. Edison, Inc. 1901
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1 video file (digital, MPEG-4) (ca. 2 min.) : si., b&w. viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (56 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (56 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. master pos pic 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 55 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. paper pos 1 roll of 1 (ca. 50 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm. paper pos (copy 2) 1 roll of 1 (ca. 50 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm. A parade of elephants, camels, horse-drawn floats, horseback riders marches forward inside a tent of the Adam Forepaugh & Sells Bros. Circus. A horse race takes place in the tent. Restricted: video files available on-site only. Access by appointment. Thomas A. Edison, Inc. Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 17May1901; H4418. Some secondary sources give Edwin S. Porter as the producer of A day at the circus, however, the title is not credited to Porter in Musser's Before the nickelodeon, or in the AFI catalog: film beginnings, 1893-1910. A day at the circus was available as four individual films (Street parade; Assembly; Horse race; Team race) or all four films together (A day at the circus series) according to the Edison films catalog, no. 288, July, 1906, p. 48. Paper print shelf number (LC 1557) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed. DLC Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian. DLC Sources used: Edison films catalog, no. 288, July, 1906, p. 48; The AFI catalog : film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 249; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 74; Catalog of copyright entries : motion pictures, 1894-1912, p. 15; Musser, C. Before the nickelodeon, c1991. Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985. Adam Forepaugh & Sells Bros. Circus. Circus Parades Horse racing FLA 4571 (viewing print) FRA 1605 (dupe neg pic) FRB 0499 (master pos pic) Box 0021B (paper pos) Box 5020A (paper pos, copy 2) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/ntscrm.02064803 Day at the circus AVCMS (DLC) 2064803 95507751 hdl:loc.mbrsmi/ntscrm.02064803 aacr amim DLC 950524 20250606174934.0 11649667 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208)