[Rarebooks] FS: President McKinley is Dead in Edison's Moving Pictures, Jim-

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“A GRAVE AFFAIR: Death, Mourning & Funereal Things”
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4. [Dead Presidents - McKinley]  1901 Tacoma Washington Theater Handbill 
for Edison’s Film of President McKinley’s Funeral.

An interesting handbill advertising the showing of the Edison Company’s 
“moving picture” of scenes from the funeral of President McKinley at the 
Searchlight Theater, Tacoma Washington. “When President McKinley went to 
the Pan-American Exposition in September 1901, an Edison camera crew 
were present to take advantage of their special photographic concession. 
When President McKinley died a week after the shooting, Edison employees 
filmed the funeral ceremonies as they moved from Buffalo to Washington 
to McKinley's hometown of Canton, Ohio. Eleven films were offered for 
sale. These were no longer simple, single-shot subjects comparable to 
those the Edison Company had sold during the Spanish-American War. Most 
scenes, such as Taking President McKinley's Body from Train at Canton, 
Ohio, consisted of several shots that were too brief to be easily sold 
or exhibited individually.” [Musser, “Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. 
Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company”. University of California 
Press, 1991]. The Searchlight Theater in Tacoma, Washington was in the 
Donnelly Hotel, and managed by Mrs. Sally C. Sloan. It had opened in 
November 1900 and closed on June 1, 1902. An interesting and uncommon 
piece of presidential funeral ephemera.  5.75”x7”. Minor soil.  [43247]  
$175


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