Opening, Pan-American Exposition /

"This is a great historical event. Our cameras were stationed in the center of the Esplanade looking toward the Main Approach to the Pan-American Exposition, with the Triumphal Bridge, and the entrance in the foreground. The procession, headed by Vice-President Roosevelt, enters the Main Approach, passes over the Triumphal Bridge, down to the center of the Esplanade directly in front of our camera, when it wheels to the left and passes into the Temple of Music. The participants in the head of the parade are made up of distinguished people, such as Senator Hanna, of Ohio, Senator Gallinger, of New Hampshire, Governor Odell, of New York, and Mr. Conrad Biehl [i.e., Diehl], Mayor of Buffalo. The military division of the parade is headed by Louis Babcock, Grand Marshal of the Exposition parade, followed by his aides, Lyman M. Bass, Dr. John A. Smith, Sherman R. Hall, Dr. Harry Meade, Evan Hollister, Frederick DeP. Townsend, Robert W. Pomeroy, Henry Robbas, Captain H.A. Bull, James McC. Mitchell, Roland Crangle, George W. Gillette, Edward M. Mills. These are followed by the first division, consisting of the 71st Regiment Band, Brigadier General S. L. Welch [i.e., Samuel Manning Welch], commanding the 4th Brigade, N.G.N.Y., and staff. This picture was taken on the official opening day, May 20th, when there were 106,000 people on the grounds, and the picture is greatly enhanced by the great crowds passing to and fro. Length 125 feet"--Edison films catalog.
H4637 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 28May1901; H4637.
Duration: 1:48 at 15 fps.
Photographed May 20, 1901. Location: Buffalo, New York.
Paper print shelf number (LC 1753) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
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Sources used: Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 232; American Film Institute catalog, film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 763; Edison films catalog, no. 105, July, 1901, p. 3, viewed online June 6, 2016 via the New Jersey Digital Highway WWW site.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.