An historic feat / motion picture

"Gen. Franklin Bell's famous mule pack train swimming the Agno River in Northern Luzon. This is one of the most notable incidents of the Philippine War. The picture has made a decided sensation wherever it has been shown"--Biograph picture catalogue.
H16738 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 18Apr1902; H16738.
Original main title lacking.
Probable release date from AFI catalog: film beginnings, 1893-1910.
Camera, Raymond Ackerman.
Duration: 0:50 at 16 fps.
Filmed February 5, 1900, on the Agno River on the island of Luzon in the Philippines.
Biograph production no. 1455.
Paper print shelf number (LC 0851) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 140; Biograph photo catalog, v. 3; Biograph picture catalogue, 1902, p. 181 [MI]; Biograph bulletins 1896-1908, p. 66; Biograph production logs; AFI catalog, film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 472.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
Paper print roll lacking suffix.