Beheading the Chinese Prisoner (1900)

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a very short silent film from 1900 that recreates a beheading. It was inspired by news reports of the Boxer Rebellion and made on a rooftop in Philadelphia.

shortsilentstagedhistoricalcontroversialblatantly racistvoyeuristic

What happens

Beheading the Chinese Prisoner, also known as Beheading a Chinese Prisoner, was a 1900 silent film produced by Siegmund Lubin. The 42-second-long film, which was inspired by news reports of the Boxer Rebellion, was produced on the roof of the Lubin Studios building in Philadelphia. It is considered an early example of "yellowface", and is featured in Arthur Dong's 2007 documentary film Hollywood Chinese. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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