Film, Video Panorama of Orphans' Home, Galveston Variant title from Edison motion pictures 1890-1900: Galveston Orphans' Home in ruins / Variant title from Edison motion pictures 1890-1900: Panorama of the Orphans' Home, Galveston
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Title
- Panorama of Orphans' Home, Galveston
Other Title
- Variant title from Edison motion pictures 1890-1900: Galveston Orphans' Home in ruins
- Variant title from Edison motion pictures 1890-1900: Panorama of the Orphans' Home, Galveston
Summary
- "The camera focuses on the building indicated as the Orphans Home, showing damage created by either the wind of the hurricane or the backwash from the tidal wave, and including debris around the yard. As the camera begins to pan for about 25 degrees, it shows further damage of the buildings"--Early motion pictures.
- "Galveston cyclone series. At the first news of the disaster by cyclone and tidal wave that devastated Galveston on Saturday, Sept. 8th, 1900, we equipped a party of photographers and sent them by special train to the scene of the ruins. Arriving at the scene of desolation shortly after the storm had swept over that city, our party succeeded, at the risk of life and limb, in taking about a thousand feet of moving pictures. In spite of the fact that Galveston was under martial law and that the photographers were shot down at sight by the excited police guards, a very wide range of subject has been secured. The series, taken as a whole, will give the entire world a definite idea of the terrible disaster, unequaled since the Johnstown flood of 1889"--Edison films catalog.
Names
- Smith, Albert E. (Albert Edward), 1875-1958, production, camera
- Vitagraph Company of America
- Thomas A. Edison, Inc
- Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., 1900.
Headings
- - Galveston Orphans Home
- - Buildings--Natural disaster effects--Texas--Galveston
- - Orphanages--Texas--Galveston
- - Hurricane damage--Texas--Galveston
- - Flood damage--Texas--Galveston
- - Hurricanes--Texas--Galveston
Genre
- Actualities (Motion pictures)
- Silent films
- Short films
- Nonfiction films
Notes
- - D18564 U.S. Copyright Office
- - Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 24Sept1900; D18564.
- - Duration: 0:50 at 16 fps.
- - According to the description in the Edison films catalog, "this is the building in which so many of the poor orphans met their death", however, according to the Texas State Historical Association, the Galveston Orphans' Home building was damaged, but no children were injured. The catalog may be confusing this building with St. Mary's Orphan's Asylum (not depicted), which was washed away by the hurricane; all ten sisters drowned, and only three of the orphanage's ninety-four children survived.
- - Paper print shelf number (LC 1381) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
- - Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
- - Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, p. 636-37; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 238-239; Edison films catalog, no. 105, July 1901, p. 14-15 [MI]; Texas State Historical Association WWW site, viewed January 2, 2015 (Diana J. Kleiner, "Galveston Children's Home"; Sister M. Declan Moroney, "St. Mary's Orphanage, Galveston", both entries in the Handbook of Texas online).
- - Camera, Albert E. Smith.
- - Filmed between September 11-19, 1900, in Galveston, Texas.
- - Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
- - Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
- - 35 mm dupe neg pic renumbered: FPF 8065 to FZA 3074.
Medium
- viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (28 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
- viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 50 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
- dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (28 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
- dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (51 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
- paper pos 1 roll of 1 (ca. 50 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.
- paper pos (copy 2) 1 roll of 1 (ca. 50 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- FLA 4395 (viewing print)
- FEB 9443 (viewing print)
- FRA 1525 (dupe neg pic)
- FZA 3074 (dupe neg pic)
- Box 0167F (paper pos)
- Box 5266D (paper pos, copy 2)
Repository
- Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D. C. 20540 USA dcu
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- 00694269
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Contributor
- Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Smith, Albert E. (Albert Edward)
- Thomas A. Edison, Inc
- Vitagraph Company of America