The Ball Game
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Synopsis
The film contains footage of an 1898 baseball game between Reading Coal Heavers and the Newark Bears. The camera is situated twenty feet from first bases and a short extract of the game is then filmed.
Current status
Given its age, this short film is available to freely be downloaded from the Internet. It has also featured in a number of film collections including Diamonds on the Silver Screen.[2]
See also
References
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- The Ball Game, full film on youtube
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- 1898 films
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- 1890s short documentary films
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- American baseball films
- American black-and-white films
- American short documentary films
- American silent short films
- Baseball in the United States
- Black-and-white documentary films
- Documentary films about baseball
- Edison Manufacturing Company films
- Silent American sports films
- Surviving American silent films