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Ambulance Call
(1897) United States of America
B&W : 50 feet
Directed by William Heise
Cast: (unknown)
Edison Manufacturing Company production; distributed by [?] Edison Manufacturing Company? / Cinematography by William Heise. / © 25 October 1897 by Thomas A. Edison [60591]. / [?] Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format? / The production was shot on 8 October 1897 in Orange, New Jersey. The film was probably intended to be shown together with and before Ambulance at the Accident (1897). Musser control number 425.
Drama.
Synopsis: [Catalogue, F.Z. Maguire & Company, (March 1898), page 42] Shows the Record Ambulance of Orange, N.J., leaving the stable in answer to a call. The scene opens with the barn door being opened, the ambulance comes out, turns up the street toward the audience and rushes by with horse at full speed. The Chief of the Fire Department, in his gig, follows. A large furniture van, which has been held back by a policeman, comes out of an alley, adding to the action and realism of the subject. The figures are life size, the films clear and sharp and the subject true to life and full of action.
Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (paper print collection) [35mm paper positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Ambulances - Animals: Horses - Law: Enforcement: Police: Policemen - Street scenes - USA: New Jersey: Orange
Listing updated: 29 March 2010.
References: Musser-Edison p. 351; Niver-Early p. 7.
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