War correspondents / motion picture

"Shows a phase of the war excitement as it affects newpaper men at Key West, Florida. About a dozen war correspondents of the different New York papers are running up the street in a bunch to get to the cable office to get copy of cablegrams to be in turn transmitted to their different papers. They rush directly toward the audience, turn a corner in the immediate foreground and disappear down a side street. A good-natured struggle occurs here, to see who will make the turn first. Curious natives watch the unusual scene. A horse and carriage follow at a seemingly slow pace, showing by comparison what a rapid head-on foot race has been witnessed. 50 feet"--Edison films "war extra" catalog.
25320 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 21Apr1898; 25320.
Original main title lacking.
Appearing: Karl C. Decker, correspondent for the New York Journal (in the carriage).
Camera, William Paley.
Duration: 0:21 at 30 fps.
Filmed March or April, 1898 in Key West, Florida.
Paper print shelf number (LC 1217) 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. 411-412; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 354; Edison films "war extra" catalog, May 10, 1898, p. 5 [MI]; AFI catalog, film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 1157-1158.