# Congress of nations -

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.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 1900
- Runtime: 2 min
- By: Contributor Names: Blackton, James Stuart, 1875-1941, production, camera. Smith, Albert E., production, cast. Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Congress_of_nations_-.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Contributor Names: Blackton, James Stuart, 1875-1941, production, camera. Smith, Albert E., production, cast. Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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