Military camp at Tampa, taken from train /

"A wide plain, dotted with tents, gleaming white in the bright sunshine. Soldiers moving about everywhere, at all sorts of duties. In the background looms up a big cigar factory; giving the prosaic touch to the picture needful to bring out in sharp contrast the patriotism with which the scene inspires us. The camera was on a rapidly moving train, so the panoramic view is a wide one, and remarkably brilliant. 50 feet"--Edison films "war extra" catalog.
31446 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 20May1898; 31446.
Duration: 0:28 at 24 fps.
Filmed May 1-13, 1898, in Tampa, Florida.
Paper print shelf number (LC 0331) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
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Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, p. 427; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 207; Edison films "war extra" catalog, May 10, 1898, p. 3 [MI].
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.