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71st Regiment, Camp Wyckoff

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Channel: Library of Congress · 2010 · Film & Animation

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SUMMARY
From the Biograph picture catalogue: 55 feet. Of the thousand and more men who left New York for the Cuban Campaign, scarcely three hundred were able to shoulder their rifles to march before the Biograph camera at Camp Wikoff. The picture shows many of the companies reduced to seven or eight men, and the whole regiment, rank and file is in a sad condition. The picture is remarkably fine in every respect.

NOTES
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 16Apr1902; H16645.

Original main title lacking.

Probable release date from AFI cat.: film beginnings, 1893-1910, 1995.

Camera, F.S. Armitage.

Materials listed originate from the print chosen best copy for digitization; for other holdings on this title, contact M/B/RS reference staff.

Biograph catalog no. 774; code name (for telegraphic orders) Enneapyle.

Filmed ca. Sept. 1898 in Camp Wikoff at Montauk Point, Long Island.

Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Niver, K.R. Early motion pictures, 1985; Biograph picture catalogue, Nov. 1902, p. 170 [MI]; Biograph bulletins 1896-1908. 1971, p. 66.

SUBJECTS
New York (State).--Militia.--Regiment, 71st.
Military camps--New York (State)--Montauk Point.
Soldiers--New York (State)--Montauk Point.
Montauk Point (N.Y.)--History, Military--19th century.
Spanish-American War, 1898.
United States.--Army--History--Spanish-American War, 1898.
Actuality--Short.
War (Nonfiction)--Short.

RELATED NAMES
Armitage, F. S., camera.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)

CALL NUMBER
FLA 4868 (ref print)
FRA 1875 (dupe neg)
LC 1854 (paper pos)

DIGITAL ID
sawmp 1854 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/sawmp.1854

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