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A Big Swallow
Also known as I Won’t, I Won’t, I’ll Eat the Camera First in the United Kingdom; A Photographic Contortion in the USA : [Englishman Swallows Photographer: Eaten Alive] : {The Big Swallow}
(1901) England
B&W : 60 feet
Directed by James Williamson

Cast: Sam Dalton

[?] Williamson Kinematograph Company or Williamson Films? production. / Cinematography by [?] James Williamson? / Released October 1901. / [?] 35mm spherical format? / The film consists of three shots; the second being edited in between the other two continuous shots. [?] The year of release is in question, but is generally accepted. The film was released in the USA as A Photographic Contortion in September 1902.

Trick film.

Survival status: Prints exist in the British Film Institute National Archive film archive; in the George Eastman Museum film archive; in the Library of Congress film archive; in the Museum of Modern Art film archive; in the Eye Film Instituut Nederland film archive; in the Cineteca del Friuli film archive; in the Archivo Nacional de la Imagen film archive; and (possibly) in the Münchner Stadtmuseum film archive.

Current rights holder: (unknown) [United Kingdom]; Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 28 May 2018.

References: Card-Seductive pp. 20-21; Fell-History p. 35; Gifford-British n. 00454; Magliozzi-Treasures n. 2152; Sopocy-Williamson pp. 252, 257.

Home video: DVD.

 
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