Charleston chain-gang / motion picture

"This picture shows the prisoners after completing their day's work of cleaning up the grounds of the Charleston Exposition, taking their positions along the long chain which secures the whole band of prisoners. They are marched past our camera to the prison, accompanied by the guards, who carry shotguns to prevent any from escaping"--Edison films catalog, no. 135.
H16714 U.S Copyright Office
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; 18Apr02; H16714.
Duration: 0:47 at 16 fps.
Filmed in Charleston, South Carolina, in early April, 1902, prior to copyright date of April 18.
Paper print shelf number (LC 0223) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
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Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Sources used: Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 52-53; AFI catalog, film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 170; Biograph production logs; Edison films catalog, no. 135, September 1902, p. 5; New York clipper, April 26, 1902, p. 212, viewed onlin June 17, 2019 via Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
35 mm dupe neg pic renumbered: FPE 0637 to FZA 0258.
Paper print roll lacking suffix.