Congress of nations -

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Congress of nations /

Summary from Edison films catalog:

A new and sensational film, which deals in a highly up-to-date manner with the international situation. A magician steps upon the stage carrying a hoop covered with white paper. Then in quick succession the flags of Germany, Russia, Ireland, England and China are brought forth and from each a soldier is produced corresponding with the flag of each nation. The magician adds a bit of comedy to the scene by producing a decidedly Hibernian policeman from the flag of Erin's Isle. The magician then slowly waves his arms in front of the American flag, and as he dissolves into thin air a striking and patriotic tableau appears. The dissolving effect from the magician to the tableau is a new and unique effect never hitherto achieved in motion photography. 115 feet. $17.25.

Filmed ca. September to early November 1900, on Vitagraph's roof-top studio in New York, New York.

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Licence or status

Public domain, as the Wikimedia Commons states it.

Rights statement

Public domain

Credit

Contributor Names: Blackton, James Stuart, 1875-1941, production, camera. Smith, Albert E., production, cast. Thomas A. Edison, Inc.

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