
William K.L. Dickson
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William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was a Scottish inventor and the Edison Manufacturing Company's official photographer. In 1889, he was assigned to turn the concept of a the proposed motion picture device, named the Kinetoscope, into a reality. The first working prototype was unveiled in May 1891 and the design of system was essentially finalised by the fall of 1892. The completed version of the Kinetoscope was officially unveiled at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on 9 May 1893.
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Blacksmith Scene (1893)
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King John (1899)
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Annie Oakley (1894)
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The Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's) (1894)
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Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)
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Battleship Odin Firing All Her Guns (1900)
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Exit of Rip and the Dwarf (1896)
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Band Drill (1894)
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Butterfly Dances (2007)
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The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Palace Balcony Responding to the Call of the Populace (Coronation of Wilhelmina) (1898)
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Buffalo Bill (1894)
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Pope Leo XIII and Count Pecci, No. 1 (1898)
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Rip Van Winkle (1896)
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Tram Journey through Southampton (1900)
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Panoramic View of Conway on the L. & N.W. Railway (1898)
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Flower Parade in Haarlem (1899)
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Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (No. 1) (1898)
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The Barber Shop (1894)
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Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii (1898)
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Pope Leo XIII Being Seated Bestowing Blessing (1898)
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James Grundy, Buck and Wing (1895)
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The Royal Procession from the Church after the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina) (1898)
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Carmencita (1894)
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Firing the Maxim Gun (1897)
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Glenroy Bros., No. 2 (1894)
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Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram (1901)
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Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (1894)
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Rip Meeting the Dwarf (1896)
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Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep (1896)
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Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage (1898)
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Review of the Royal Netherland Guards in the Costumes of the Middle Ages (Coronation of Wilhelmina Guard of Honor) (1898)
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The Royal Procession to the Church before the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina) (1898)
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View on Boulevard, New York City (1896)
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Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square (1898)
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Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice (1898)
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The Bridge of Sighs, Venice (1898)
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Pope Leo XIII Leaving Carriage and Being Ushered Into Garden, No. 104 (1898)
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Tambourine Dance by Annabelle (1896)
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His Holiness Pope Leo XIII (1898)
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Corpus Christi Procession, Orvieto (1898)
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Amann, the Great Impersonator (1899)
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London Fire Brigade, Alarm (1899)
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Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow (1896)
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Serpentine Dance by Annabelle (1896)
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Scheveningen, Dutch Fishing Boats (1898)
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Hiram Maxim and His Quick-firing Gun (1897)
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A Camp of Zingaree Gypsies (1897)
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Imperial Japanese Dance (1894)
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The Landing of Savage South Africa at Southampton (1899)
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Venice, harbour scene with gondolas (1898)
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Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894)
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Robetta and Doretto, No. 1 (1895)
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Irish Mail – L.& N.W. Railway – Taking up Water at Full Speed (1898)
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Buffalo Dance (1894)
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Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amsterdam, Sept 6th (Coronation of Wilhelmina) (1898)
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Panorama of Grand Harbour, Malta, Showing Battleships, Etc. (1901)
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Bath Scene (1897)
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Launch of the 'Oceanic' (1899)
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Four Warships in Rough Seas (1900)
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Rudge-Whitworth – Britain’s Best Bicycle (1902)
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Pope Leo XIII Resting on His Way to His Summer Villa (1898)
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Dickson Greeting (1891)
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Danse serpentine (Annabelle) (1895)
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Fred Ott Holding a Bird (1894)
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The Tarantella, an Italian Dance (1898)
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Les Parisiennes (1897)
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The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight (1894)
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Indian War Council (1894)
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Man Overboard! (1899)
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French Military School Exercise (1897)
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Awakening of Rip (1896)
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Ruth Dennis (1894)
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The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show” (1894)
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Fun on a Sand Hill (1899)
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Fatima (1897)
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Charge of the French Cuirassiers – Paris (1897)
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Capuchin Monks in Vatican City (1898)
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Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing) (1894)
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Ten Pickaninnies (1908)
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Home Life of a Hungarian Family (1897)
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From War to Peace: First Departure of S.S. 'St. Louis' from Southampton (1898)
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A Blast at the Solvay Quarries (1898)
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From Monte Carlo to Monaco (1899)
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Funeral Procession of the Misericordia (1898)
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Newark Athlete (1891)
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Pope Leo XIII Carried through the Vatican Loggia on His Way to the Sistine Chapel (1898)
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Maidenhead Junction (1898)
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Hadj Cheriff (1894)
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Highland Dance (1894)
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Men Boxing (1891)
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In a German Bath (1899)
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Annabelle Dances and Dances (1997)
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Trained Bears (1894)
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Water Polo - Worthing Swimming Club (1898)
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Annabelle in Flag Dance (1896)
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American Falls from Goat Island (1896)
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Horse Shoeing (1893)
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Monkeyshines, No. 1 (1890)
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Panoramic View of Windsor Castle (1899)
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Has He Hit Me? (1897)
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Rip's Toast (1896)
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Chinese Laundry Scene (1894)
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Cock Fight, No. 2 (1894)
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The Grand Canal, Venice (1898)
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Sandow: The Strong Man (1894)
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Pope Leo XIII Walking at Twilight, No. 1 (1898)
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A Bar Room Scene (1894)
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Dance (1894)
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Fire Rescue Scene (1894)
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Newark athlete. [No. 2] (1891)
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Annabelle Butterfly Dance (1894)
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Rats and Terrier No. 2 (1894)
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Duel to the Death (1898)
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The Boulevard of Scheveningen (1898)
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Crissie Sheridan (1897)
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Man on Parallel Bars (1892)
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Nabbed by the Nipper (1902)
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Rat Killing (1894)
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Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud (1891)
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Brook Trout Fishing (1900)
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Place de la Concorde (1897)
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Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop (1891)
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Caicedo (with Pole) (1894)
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Mills from the Zaanstreek (1898)
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Tapping a Blast Furnace (1899)
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Sandow (1896)
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A West Indian Woman Bathing a Baby (1895)
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Charge of the Carabineers, Aldershot (1898)
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Billy Edwards and the Unknown (1895)
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Away Aloft (1899)
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A Watermelon Feast (1896)
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English Nell (1900)
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Duncan Smoking (1891)
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Annabelle Sun Dance (1894)
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Rip Passing Over the Mountain (1896)
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Catching the Ferry in Amsterdam (1899)
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Sioux Ghost Dance (1894)
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Lasso Thrower (1894)
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An Obstinate Cork (1902)
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In the Friedrichstrasse (1899)
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American Falls from Luna Island (1896)
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Rats and Terrier No. 3 (1894)
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Mexican Knife Duel (1894)
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Wrestling Match (1894)
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The Vatican Military Guard, Consisting of a Detachment of Noble Guards, Commanded by Count Pecci, Followed by a Palatine Guard of Honour, Swiss Guard, Gendarmes and Fire Brigade (1898)
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Upside Down Boxers (1899)
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A Hand Shake (1892)
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Rip's Toast to Hudson (1896)
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Changing Guard (Berlin) (1897)
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Luis Martinetti, Contortionist (1894)
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He and She (1898)
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Bucking Broncho (1894)
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Sound Money Parade (1896)
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Fencing (1892)
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Leonard-Cushing Fight (1894)
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Chinese Opium Den (1894)
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Athlete with Wand (1894)
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Mr. Hurry-up (1907)
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Monkey and Another, Boxing (1891)
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Rats and Weasel (1894)
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Dutch Fishing Fleet (1900)
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Dutch Fishing Boats (1898)
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Monkeyshines, No. 2 (1890)
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Warships at Sunset (1900)
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Monkeyshines, No. 3 (1890)
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Boxing Match (1894)
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Military Exercise - Aldershot (1898)
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Dancing Darkies (1896)
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Wrestling (1892)
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New Blacksmith Shop (1895)
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Mlle. Capitaine (1894)
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Hard Wash (1896)
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The Cock Fight (1894)
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