Mexican Knife Duel
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Directed by | William Kennedy Dickson |
Produced by | William Kennedy Dickson |
Starring | Pedro Esquivel and Dionecio Gonzales |
Cinematography | William Heise |
Distributed by | Edison Manufacturing Company |
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Running time | 60 seconds |
Country | United States |
Languages | Silent English intertitles |
Mexican Knife Duel is an 1894 American black-and-white short silent film from Edison Studios, produced by William K. L. Dickson with William Heise as cinematographer. It features an exhibition of fighting skills by Mexican vaqueros Pedro Esquivel and Dionecio Gonzales. Filmed in Edison's Black Maria studio, it has a runtime of 60 seconds.[note 1] Although stills exist, the film is understood to be lost.[1][2]
The film 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.[3]
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Notes[edit]
- ^ Dickson and Heise filmed their Wild West demonstrations on single reels, using standard 35 mm gauge.
References[edit]
- ^ Musser, Charles (1997). Edison Motion Pictures, 1890–1900: An Annotated Filmography. Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 140–141. ISBN 978-88-86155-07-6.
- ^ "Pedro Esquivel and Dionecio Gonzales". Le GrimH (in Spanish). Retrieved April 8, 2022.
- ^ "Mexican Knife Duel on the Silver Screen". University of Oklahoma Press. August 2013. Retrieved April 8, 2022.
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Categories:
- 1894 films
- 1894 short films
- 1894 Western (genre) films
- 1890s American films
- 1890s lost films
- American black-and-white films
- American short documentary films
- American silent short films
- Black-and-white documentary films
- Edison Manufacturing Company films
- Films directed by William Kennedy Dickson
- Films shot in New Jersey
- Lost American Western (genre) films
- Silent American Western (genre) films
- Pre-1910 Western (genre) film stubs
- Short silent film stubs