Fencing
About Fencing
Two men face the camera with their blades crossed and fence. W. K. L. Dickson and William Heise shot the test in 1892 for Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope.
Cast & crew
More about Fencing
Silent Era credits W. K. L. Dickson and William Heise as directors and lists the film as an Edison production, shot on an early vertical-feed Kinetograph format. Charles Musser cites it among the 1892 experiments. It was a fencing exhibition made to test the camera, not a staged story.
Themes
Background
Edison and Dickson were still testing the Kinetograph in 1892, the year before the first Black Maria films were deposited for copyright.
Look
William Heise shared the camera work with W. K. L. Dickson on the Kinetograph test.
Notes
- Silent Era files it as Men Fencing and marks the subject simply as a view of a fencing exhibition.
- The references given there are Musser's Before the Nickelodeon and The Emergence of Cinema.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons
