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Beheading a Chinese Prisoner
Also known as {Beheading the Chinese Prisoner}
(1900) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by [?] James F. Frawley and Jacob Blair Smith?

Cast: (unknown)

Lubin Manufacturing Company production; distributed by Lubin Manufacturing Company. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot on rooftop of the Lubin offices in [?] July or August? 1900.

Drama.

Synopsis: [From Lubin’s Complete Catalogue, Lubin’s Films, January 1903, page ?] A Chinese prisoner is tried before one of the chiefs, and being found guilty, is sentenced to be beheaded, which sentence is immediately executed. The executioner displays the head to the spectators to serve as a warning for evil doers. Very exciting.

Survival status: Print exists in the George Eastman Museum film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Asians - Chinese - Executions

Listing updated: 11 August 2009.

References: Leyda-Before pp. 80, 101; Musser-Emerge pp. 287, 598.