Fonds/collection:
FLAHERTY BROTHERS
General access conditions for collection
Reproduction access:
- copyright expired : with permission of donor
Remarks:
- 1. UMBRELLA PARADE and FEEDING THE DOVES were repatriated from the Library of Congress when the other 18 films were received in 1982 in order to complete the collection.
- 2. Public screenings and commercial use to be cleared by depositor; see also deposit agreement
Accession number:
1982-0026
Title:
Black Diamond Express, No. 1-2
Production company:
- Edison Manufacturing Company
Description:
- This scene presents the famous Lehigh Valley flyer, the Black Diamond Express, emerging from a wood in the distance and approaching the camera under a full head of steam. A section gang in the foreground, engaged in repairing track, wave their hats to the engineer who is leaning out of the cab window. The snowy linen which the porters wave from the platform of the dining car ads to the effect produced. After it flies past, railway officials come into view waving and cheering at the camera. The Black Diamond is undoubtedly the handsomest, and one of the fastest, trains in America, and the subject is the only one in existence showing an express train making seventy miles an hour. <20s>
Subjects:
- BLACK DIAMOND EXPRESS
- RAILROAD EXPRESS TRAINS
Copyright Status:
Copyright expired.
Notes:
- 1. Description from the Chicago Talking Machine Co. catalogue (1897).
- 2. The running time is calculated at 36 fps.
- 3. Copyright 27 April 1897; 26109-10.
- 4. For a compilation of early films from the Flaherty Brothers collection see [FLAHERTY BROTHERS EARLY FILM PROGRAM] (ISN 323567).
- 5. Silent without intertitles.
Consultation copy:
- V1 8212-0063
- V1 8309-0055
- V1 2000-06-0009
