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Parade of "exempt" firemen /  - movie film screenshot

Parade of "exempt" firemen / - movie film screenshot

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Summary

The film shows a large group of people watching the approach of a color guard followed by a number of elderly marching firemen [Frame: 1734] pulling antique fire equipment [2486]. In the background is the white marble Washington Arch [0116], designed by Stanford White and completed in 1895 to commemorate the first inauguration of George Washington.
H36401 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 1Oct1903; H36401.
Camera, Frederick S. Armitage.
Duration: 1:29 at 15 fps.
Photographed September 21, 1903. Location: Washington Square Park (Greenwich Village), New York, N.Y.
Biograph production no. 2570.
Paper print shelf number (LC 1796) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Sources used: Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 244; Biograph production logs, v. 2.
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 5576 to FZA 2469.

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01/01/1903
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Armitage, F. S., camera.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
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Library of Congress
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