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Rube and Mandy at Coney Island was produced, directed, shot and edited by Edwin S. Porter Copyrighted on August 13, 1903, the 725 ft., 35mm film lasted roughly 10 minutes if projected at 20 frames per second.
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- ↑ Niver, Kemp R. (1968). The First Twenty Years: A Segment of Film History. Locare Research Group. p. 21. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
- ↑ Musser, Charles (Autumn 1979). "The Early Cinema of Edwin Porter". Cinema Journal. 19 (1): 16–17.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: year (link) - ↑ "The martyred presidents / Thomas A. Edison, Inc" . Retrieved 9 March 2013.
