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Crossing ice bridge at Niagara Falls

Crossing ice bridge at Niagara Falls

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A 360 degree pan of Niagara Falls during the extremely severe winter of 1903-04; the camera was positioned on or near the ice frozen over the top of the rapids created by the Falls, panning over the Falls, the frozen area, both banks and the full cantilever suspension bridge between Canada and the U.S. People can be seen walking on the ice.
H40910 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; 15Jan1904; H40910.
Photographer, Edwin S. Porter.
Film title added to viewing print (copy 2) and dupe neg pic (copy 2) during restoration.
Paper print shelf number (LC 1552) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
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Probably incorporated into Niagara in winter released by George Kleine ca. 1910.
Sources used: Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 70; The George Kleine...catalog, p. 25.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
The George Kleine Collection of early motion pictures in the Library of Congress : a catalog / prepared by Rita Horwitz and Harriet Harrison with the assistance of Wendy White. Library of Congress, 1980.

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1910
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