1901 Pan Am Esplanade Lighted Up for Night

Clip: 493577_1_1

Year Shot: 1901 (Actual Year)

Audio: No

Video: B/W

Tape Master: 1151

Original Film: H10633

HD: N/A

Location: Buffalo, NY, USA

Timecode: 00:42:39 - 00:43:52

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"Panorama of Esplanade by Night" at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, 1901. Slow Pan on the exhibit buildings outlined by thousands of glowing lightbulbs - -reported to have been marvelously colorful! Pioneer camera operator Edwin S. Porter maintained that this was the first motion picture taken at night by incandescent light in America.