Blacksmith Scene (also known as the Blacksmith Scene # 1 and Blacksmithing Scene ) is a silent film American of less than a minute, directed by William Kennedy Dickson in1893 .
This film (the English word film is used for the first time in the modern sense by Thomas Edison), shot with the Kinetographe , the first camera in the history of cinema, is one of the first films publicly presented thanks to the Kinétoscope , machine individual viewing by eyecup. In 1995 , he was added to the US National Film Registry’s list of official repairs and preservation of historically important films by the Library of Congress in Washington .
Synopsis
Three blacksmiths strike a few hammers on a piece of iron, then drink a beer directly from the neck of the bottle and resume their work.
Technical sheet
- Original title: Blacksmith Scene
- Other title: Blacksmith Scene (literal translation)
- Director: William KL Dickson
- Production Company: Edison Studios
- Format: 35mm film with 2 sets of 4 rectangular Edison perforations per frame at 1.33: 1 ratio, black and white , mute
- Genre: Docu-fiction
- Release date: May 9, 1893
Distribution
- Charles Kayser
- John Ott