Newark Athlete

Newark Athlete is an 1891 American short silent film directed and produced by William Kennedy Dickson. The film, roughly ten seconds in length, displays a young athlete swinging Indian clubs. It was filmed in May or June 1891, in the Photographic Building at the Edison Laboratory, West Orange, New Jersey.[1] The film was made to be viewed using Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope.

Newark Athlete
Directed byWilliam K.L. Dickson
Produced byWilliam K.L. Dickson
Production
company
Distributed byEdison Studios
Release date
  • 1891 (1891)
Running time
12 seconds
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent

In 2010, Newark Athlete was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It is currently the oldest film chosen to be in the Registry.

References

  1. , Library of Congress.


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