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DescriptionDickson Greeting.ogv
Filmstrip of one of the three Monkeyshines films produced by Thomas Edison's laboratory by May 20, 1891 (source: American Memory from the Library of Congress) for the early cylinder version of the Kinetoscope. The one displayed here is believed to be the second Monkeyshines film.
Thomas Alva Edison (inventor); William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (inventor, person in film)
This file was selected as the media of the day for 19 March 2014. It was captioned as follows:
English: Dickson Greeting is credited as one of the world's first films. It was filmed on May 20, 1891.
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English: Dickson Greeting is credited as one of the world's first films. It was filmed on May 20, 1891.
中文(简体):与1891年3月20日拍摄的《迪克森的问候》是世界上最早的几部影片之一。
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