Partially Identified Edison film
[Two Men in a Punt] (UK? ca. 1898)
Director: Unidentified
Production company: Unidentified
Production date: unknown
Sound: silent
Color: replication of original tinting using Desmet color injection
Length (in feet): 0.2 ft.
Length (in reels): 1
Running time: 1 sec.
Frame rate: 16 fps
The Seaforth Highlanders’ Return to Cairo after the Fall of Omdurman and Khartoum (UK 1898)
Director: [John ‘Mad Jack’ Benett-Stanford]
Cast: Unidentified
Production company: [Warwick Trading Company]
Production date: 1898
Sound: silent
Color: replication of original tinting using Desmet color injection
Original length (in feet): 57 ft.
Length of the fragment at the George Eastman Museum (in feet): 16 ft.
Length (in reels): 1
Running time: 16 sec.
Frame rate: 16 fps
Restored by the George Eastman Museum and the Film Foundation, with funding for digitization provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation
Preserved at Cinema Arts Laboratory
Digitized by Eastman Museum Film Preservation Services
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This clip is only 16 ft. in length.
The first three frames show two men in a punt, possibly students at Oxford or Cambridge. The main part of the film is part of The Seaforth Highlanders’ Return to Cairo after the Fall of Omdurman and Khartoum. Both of the films were released in America by Edison without credit to the producers.