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United States : Thomas A. Edison, Inc., 1897.
NOTES
60596 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 25Oct1897; 60596.
Duration: 0:48 at 15 fps.
This film shows the arrest and conveyance of a Chinese man in
Chinatown, watched by a crowd of onlookers. The precise date of this film
and the arrest charge are uncertain. It is possible that the arrest was
connected with the smuggling of illegal immigrants from China. By mutual
agreement between China and the United States, a small quota of merchants
and students were allowed to immigrate yearly, but few legal immigrants
actually were of these professions, and illegal immigration continued. One
of the San Francisco residences for new arrivals was located at 830/832
Washington Street, the general location from which the arrest party
ascends at the start of the film. A second possible cause for the arrest is
tong activity. Chinatown at this time was plagued with warfare between
various tongs (gang associations of rootless and under-enfranchised
immigrants and non-
The following is a scene-by-scene description of the film: [15147] The camera was placed at the northwest corner of Washington Street and Stout's Alley (Now Ross Alley), midway between Stockton Street and Grant Avenue. The first scene shows the arrested man being led by a police officer west up the north side of Washington Street to Stout's Alley. A group of pedestrians, mostly white, watch the man's unwilling arrest [15182]. A detective is seen pointing the cameraman toward the police cart waiting in Washington Street [15536]. The next scene shows the departure of the police cart with the arrested man, policemen, and triumphant detective, who waves to the camera [15717]. The cart turns east and begins down Washington Street as a mostly Chinese crowd watches from the south side of Washington Street and the intersecting Waverly Place [15825].
Received: 10/25/1897; paper pos; copyright deposit Paper Print Collection.
SUBJECTS
Police--California--
San Francisco.
Horse-drawn vehicles--California--San
Francisco.
Police
vehicles--California--San Francisco.
Streets--California--San Francisco.
Commercial buildings--California--San
Francisco.
Chinatown (San
Francisco, Calif.)
Shorts.
Actualities.
RELATED NAMES
Thomas A. Edison,
Inc.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
MEDIUM
1 roll (68 ft) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. paper
pos.
CALL NUMBER
LC 992 (paper pos)