Lasso Thrower is a lost 1894 American black-and-white short silent film from Edison Studios, produced by William K. L. Dickson with William Heise as cinematographer. It has a 60-second runtime and was filmed on a single reel, using standard 35 mm gauge, in Edison's Black Maria studio. The film, an exhibition of roping skills by Mexican vaquero Vicente Oropeza, is one of several shot by Dickson and Heise after Thomas Edison invited William F. Cody and his Buffalo Bill's Wild West show performers to the kinetoscope studio.[1][2]
| Lasso Thrower | |
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| Directed by | William Kennedy Dickson |
| Produced by | William Kennedy Dickson |
| Starring | Vicente Oropeza |
| Cinematography | William Heise |
| Distributed by | Edison Manufacturing Company |
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Running time | 60 seconds |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
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References edit
- ^ "Lasso Thrower on the Silver Screen". University of Oklahoma Press. August 2013. Retrieved September 11, 2021.
- ^ Musser, Charles (1997). Edison Motion Pictures, 1890–1900: An Annotated Filmography. Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 140–141. ISBN 978-88-86155-07-6.
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