McKinley and party / motion picture

"This picture has been very popular wherever it has been shown on the Biograph. To begin with, the film is unusually fine photographically, and the picture is taken from a point of view which shows the immense distances of Camp Wikoff with its multitude of tents in the background. The President, with Vice-President Hobart and Secretary of War Russell A. Alger, appear in an open carriage escorted by a large number of officers, notable among whom are Gen. Wheeler, Gen. Gates, and Col. John Jacob Astor. This picture is brought to a rather humorous ending by the efforts of a newspaper photographer to get Col. Astor to pose for a picture. He is unsuccessful, and as the gallant colonel gallops away, the photographer's chagrin is apparent"--Biograph picture catalogue.
H27386 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 22Jan1903; H27386.
Original main title lacking.
Appearing: President William McKinley, Vice-President Garret Hobart, Secretary of War Russell A. Alger, Gen. Joseph Wheeler, Col. John Jacob Astor, Gen. Gates.
Probable release date from AFI catalog: film beginnings, 1893-1910.
Duration: 0:51 at 16 fps.
Filmed on September 3,1898 in Camp Wikoff at Montauk Point, Long Island. According to the New York times, President McKinley spent five hours at Camp Wikoff on September 3, 1898, visiting sick soldiers and inspecting the camp.
Biograph production no. 783.
Paper print shelf number (LC 0281) 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: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 197; Biograph picture catalogue, Nov. 1902, p. 107 [MI]; American Film Institute catalog, film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 856-857; Biograph production logs; New York times, September 4, 1898, p. 1, viewed online via ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
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 9291 to FZA 2721.