Lasso Thrower
| Lasso Thrower | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | William Kennedy Dickson |
| Produced by | William Kennedy Dickson |
| Starring | Vicente Oropeza |
| Cinematography | William Heise |
| Distributed by | Edison Manufacturing Company |
Release date |
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Running time | 60 seconds |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent |
Lasso Thrower is a lost 1894 black-and-white silent film from Edison Studios, produced by William K. L. Dickson with William Heise as cinematographer. It was filmed on a single reel, using standard 35 mm gauge, in Edison's Black Maria studio. The film, an exhibition of roping skills by Mexican vaquero Vicente Oropeza is one of several shot by Dickson and Heise after Thomas Edison invited William F. Cody and his Buffalo Bill's Wild West show performers to the kinetoscope studio.[1]
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References[]
- ^ "Lasso Thrower on the Silver Screen". University of Oklahoma Press. August 2013. Retrieved September 11, 2021.
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- 1894 films
- Silent films
- 1894 Western (genre) films
- 1890s short films
- American black-and-white films
- American films
- American short documentary films
- American silent short films
- Black-and-white documentary films
- Films directed by William Kennedy Dickson
- Films shot in New Jersey
- Lost American films
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- Silent American Western (genre) films
- Pre-1910 Western (genre) film stubs