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1894 film
Bucking Broncho
is an 1894 American black-and-white
silent film
from
Edison Studios
, produced by
William K. L. Dickson
with
William Heise
as cinematographer. Filmed on a single reel, using standard
35 mm gauge
, it has a 32-second runtime. One of the earliest known films in the
Western genre
, it is preserved by the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
and available in the DVD collection
More Treasures from American Film Archives
(2004).
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The film features Lee Martin who was an actual cowboy "bronco rider" and a member of
Buffalo Bill's Wild West
show. Martin's part was uncredited and it was his only film. Also appearing is Frank Hammitt, another star of the show, who is standing on the fence and firing his revolver. The film is a demonstration of Martin's expert horse riding before a crowd of onlookers although the horse, who was called Sunfish, unseats him at the end of the clip.
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