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Buffalo Dance (1894)
Directed by William K.L. Dickson, William Heise
Documentary, Western · 1m
Long before Hollywood started painting white men red and dressing them as 'Injuns' Edison's company was using the genuine article! Featuring for what is believed to be the Native Americans first appearance before a motion picture camera 'Buffalo Dance' features genuine members of the Sioux Tribe dressed in full war paint and costume! The dancers are believed to be veteran members of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Filmed again at the Black Maria studios by both Dickson and Heise the 'Buffalo Dance' warriors were named as Hair Coat, Parts His Hair and Last Horse. Its quite strange seeing these movies at first they all stand around waiting to begin and as they start some of the dancers look at the camera in an almost sad way at having lost their way of life.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- William K.L. Dickson, William Heise
- Director of Photography
- William Heise
Details
- Release date
- 1894-09-23
- Runtime
- 1m
- Genres
- Documentary, Western
- Original language
- XX
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Edison Studios