The Martyred Presidents
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19 Oct 1901
1901Short1m 7s
This film is difficult to classify. It opens on a scene showing a mourner with bowed head sitting in front of what appears to be a tombstone. Shortly afterwards, the face of Abraham Lincoln and then of two other presidents, Garfield and McKinley, can be seen on the monument and then they disappear. There is a figure huddled at the foot of a statue of Justice, as if asking forgiveness.
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Genres Short
Decade 1900s
This Movie is Somber, Reverent, Ethereal, Stately, Mournful & Ghostly
About The Martyred Presidents A 1901 short film by Edwin Stanton Porter, notable for its symbolic imagery and commemorative focus on the legacies of three American presidents
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Audio English (United States)
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Credits
Cast
- Unknown Mourner
- Unknown Kneeling assassin before Justice
Director
- Edwin Stanton Porter
- Edwin S. Porter
Screenwriter
- Edwin Stanton Porter
