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Sioux_ghost_dance,_1894.ogv (Ogg Theora video file, length 24 s, 320 × 240 pixels, 1.37 Mbps, file size: 3.98 MB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.
Buffalo Dance is an 1894 black-and-white silent film from Edison Studios, produced by William K. L. Dickson with William Heise as cinematographer. Filmed on a single reel, using standard 35 mm gauge, it has a 16-second runtime. The film, with English intertitles, was shot in Edison's Black Maria studio at the same time as Sioux Ghost Dance. [1]
The Sioux Ghost Dance film offers non-natives an inaccurate depiction of the Ghost Dance. In the film there is a drum, but the dance itself does not include instruments. The dancer's heads are face downwards, hands are holding pipes and moving their feet in a fast-paced motion, whereas the original dance is slow, hands are held together, and ...
Sioux Ghost Dance These exhibition films are silent shorts directed and produced by William K. L. Dickson at Thomas Edison's Black Maria studio, with William Heise as cinematographer. The performers in each film were members of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show with Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill themselves exhibiting their rifle shooting skills. [ 1 ]
According to Edison film historian C. Musser, this film and others shot on the same day (see also Sioux ghost dance) featured Native American Indian dancers from Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, and constitutes the American Indian's first appearance before a motion picture camera. Filmed September 24, 1894, in Edison's Black Maria studio.
The Ghost Shirt is a shirt that is believed to have been worn by a Sioux warrior killed in the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre.The shirt is plain cotton, has raven, owl, and eagle feathers hanging from the neck, and is pierced in several places with bullet holes.
Oriental Dance, starring Rosa; The Pickaninny Dance, from the 'Passing Show', starring Joe Rastus, Denny Tolliver and Walter Wilkins; Rat Killing; Rats and Terrier No. 2; Rats and Terrier No. 3; Rats and Weasel; Ruth Dennis, starring Ruth St. Denis; Sandow, starring Eugen Sandow; Sheik Hadji Tahar, starring Sheik Hadji Tahar; Sioux Ghost Dance
The Henley Royal Regatta of 1894; Highland Dance (1894 film) The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight; Japanese Imperial Dance; Leonard-Cushing Fight; Man on Pararell Bars; Miss Lucy Murray; Organ Grinder (film) Oriental Dance (1894 film) The Pickaninny Dance, from the 'Passing Show' The Pickanninies; Rat Killing; Ruth Dennis; Sioux Ghost Dance; Souvenir ...