The Forbidden City, Pekin - movie film screenshot

Views of the Forbidden City (Imperial Palace), Peking, China: camera, probably located atop the Meridian Gate (Wu Men) pans from the east, past the Gate of Great Harmony (T'ai Ho Men) with the Hall of Supreme Harmony (T'ai Ho Tien) behind it, past the White Pagoda (Pai Ta) in Pei-Hai Park, and then past the West Flowery Gate.
H34805 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. ; 19Aug1903; H34805.
Additional variant titles from Paul Spehr's document "American Mutoscope & Biograph Productions, 1896-1908", compiled from the Biograph production logs.
Camera, Raymond Ackerman.
Paper Print Collection films (copy 2) are longer due to printing differences; titles were added during restoration.
Biograph production no. 1765.
Paper print shelf number (LC 1128) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
Titles added to 16 mm. Paper Print Collection materials during original restoration.
Filmed on January 31, 1901 in Peking (Beijing) China.
Video files Mode of access: on-site workflow application.
Sources used: MacFarquhar, Roderick. The Forbidden City; Dorn, Frank. The Forbidden City. 1970; Early motion pictures, p. 109; the Theodore Roosevelt Association...catalog, p. 24-25; Biograph production logs.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
The Theodore Roosevelt Association film collection : a catalog / prepared by Wendy White-Henson and Veronica M. Gillespie. Library of Congress, 1986.