The Ball Game (1898)
- Directed by
- William Heise
- Genre
- documentary film, silent film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1 min
- Rating
- 3.1 of 10 from 10 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A silent black and white film from 1898 shows a baseball game. The camera records the players as they go through the motions of the sport.
old-fashionedquietgrainysimplestraightforwardobservational
What happens
The Ball Game is an 1898 American short black-and-white silent documentary sports film produced and distributed by Edison Manufacturing Company. It was directed by William Heise. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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