Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show: A Grand Review. 16mm reel, diameter 10.5 in. (roughly 800 feet), in a Chicago Film Laboratory, Inc., case. Title card reads Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show / A Grand Review. The footage has recently been played and filmed, with all 29 minutes of footage viewable on a CD accompanying the reel. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show performers were first recorded on kinetograph by Thomas Edison in 1894, notably a shooting demonstration by Annie Oakley. Edison and Cody had earlier partnered on a massive electrical lighting system for a stand in Paris, and Edison chose the show as one the first subjects to be recorded. Provenance: Descended directly in the family of William F. Buffalo Bill Cody; previously sold in these rooms, January 31, 2014, William F. Cody Auction, Lot 152; consigned by a private collector.
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show: A Grand Review. 16mm reel, diameter 10.5 in. (roughly 800 feet), in a Chicago Film Laboratory, Inc., case. Title card reads Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show / A Grand Review. The footage has recently been played and filmed, with all 29 minutes of footage viewable on a CD accompanying the reel. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show performers were first recorded on kinetograph by Thomas Edison in 1894, notably a shooting demonstration by Annie Oakley. Edison and Cody had earlier partnered on a massive electrical lighting system for a stand in Paris, and Edison chose the show as one the first subjects to be recorded. Provenance: Descended directly in the family of William F. Buffalo Bill Cody; previously sold in these rooms, January 31, 2014, William F. Cody Auction, Lot 152; consigned by a private collector.
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