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Lasso Thrower (1894)

Lasso Thrower poster
Directed by
William Kennedy Dickson
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1 min
Rating
1.8 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A silent black-and-white short from 1894 shows a Mexican vaquero doing rope tricks. This lost film was shot in a single 60-second take at Edison's Black Maria studio.

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What happens

Lasso Thrower adalah film bisu hitam-putih pendek tahun 1894 yang telah hilang. Film ini di produksi oleh William K. L. Dickson bersama dengan William Heise sebagai sinematografer untuk Edison Studios. Film ini memiliki durasi 60 detik dan difilmkan pada satu gulungan menggunakan ukuran standar 35 mm di studio Black Maria milik Edison. Film ini menampilkan pameran keterampilan roping oleh seorang vaquero Meksiko bernama Vicente Oropeza. Film ini merupakan salah satu dari beberapa film yang direkam oleh Dickson dan Heise setelah Thomas Edison mengundang William F. Cody dan para pemain pertunjukan Buffalo Bill's Wild West ke studio kinetoskop. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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