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Title	Japs Loading and Firing a Gun on Battleship 'Asam'
Creator	Edison
Description	This is one of several actualities taken on the Japanese warship and offered for sale by Edison in March, 1904. Photographed in medium long shot, four Japanese sailors overseen by an officer operate a heavy gun. The print uses the Edison sprockets and is proceeded by a faint Edison copyright notice. Its placement on this reel immediately following Lubin's The Fight on the Bridge for Supremacy may have reflected the original exhibitor providing two related views of the Russo-Japanese War. Actually a 9,750-ton armored cruiser, Asama led the Japanese force that defeated two Russian warships in the Battle of Chemulpo Bay (present day Inchon, South Korea) on February 8, 1904, the war's opening engagement. (Warner 189?94). A month later, both Edison and Biograph were offering a series of war-related actualities, each company including several minimally described Asama subjects, some depicting Japanese sailors operating naval guns(3) Some or all of these films may have been the same views titled differently by the two companies. The SWFVA's restored Asama print is just over 68 ft. long, quite close to this title's advertised length of 70 ft. The Charles Urban Trading Co. sent cameraman Joseph Rosenthal to shoot scenes of the war and he may have taken the Japanese naval actualities offered by the American producers. Other scenes taken by Rosenthal later that fall from the Japanese side of the siege of Port Arthur were presented in the programs of the traveling exhibitor Lyman H. Howe and travel-lecturer Burton Holmes in the 1905-06 season. (Musser and Nelson, 162, 311-12). (Worland, 1995: http://www.fiafnet.org/pdf/uk/fiaf51.pdf)
Contributors	Worland, Rick
Original Date	ca. 1904
Original Format	35 mm nitrate film
Related Resources	Worland, R. 1995. The Sulphur Springs, Texas early films discovery. Journal of Film Preservation 51: 54-64. http://www.fiafnet.org/pdf/uk/fiaf51.pdf (Note: go to page 56 in the.pdf file)
Item Number	SSM13
Type	video
Digitization Date	Digitized for web: 2009
Digital Format	TRT 00:00:45.77 ; Archival File: Video: DV-NTSC, 640 x 480; Streaming File: Presented in Vimeo as 480 x 360
Digitization Process	Files were ripped from source DVD to create NTSC .mov master file. Utilized reverse-telecine using standard 2s3w pattern to create a 640x480, 23.98fps, square pixel master file. Uploaded master file to Vimeo.
Web Page	http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/all/cul/ssm/stream/SSM13_Stream.html
Movie File	SSM13_LoadingStream.mov
SMU File Path	ARCHIVE\ContentDM\Hamon\SSM_SulphurSpringsMovies\SSM_Stream
Related SMU Files	DIGITAL MASTERS: ARCHIVE\ContentDM\ Hamon\SSM_SulphurSpringsMovies\SSM_Masters. PROJECT FILES: PROJECT\Libraries\DigitalCollections\ Hamon\SSM_SulphurSpringsMovies
Digital Collection	Sulphur Springs Collection of Pre-Nickelodeon Films
Part of	Sulphur Springs
Library	Hamon Library
Publisher	Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University
Rights	This movie has been determined to be in the public domain. Under this copyright status, it may be freely used. Please cite Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, G. William Jones Film and Video Collection as the source of this file. For more information, contact filmarchive@smu.edu.

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