Electrocuting an Elephant

1903 silent film
Movie short_film Q1325978
Electrocuting an Elephant
Edwin S. Porter or Jacob Blair Smith / Edison Manufacturing Company · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Electrocuting an Elephant

Summary

Electrocuting an Elephant is a short film[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of short_film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (486 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Electrocuting an Elephant's video is recorded as Electrocuting an Elephant (1903).webm[3].
  • Electrocuting an Elephant's image is recorded as Electrocuting an Elephant edison film 1903 frame shot.png[4].
  • Electrocuting an Elephant's instance of is recorded as short film[5].
  • Electrocuting an Elephant's director is recorded as Thomas Edison[6].
  • Electrocuting an Elephant's genre is recorded as silent film[7].
  • Electrocuting an Elephant's genre is recorded as documentary film[8].
  • Electrocuting an Elephant's producer is recorded as Edison Studios[9].
  • Electrocuting an Elephant's depicts is recorded as Topsy[10].
  • Electrocuting an Elephant's depicts is recorded as electrocution[11].
  • Electrocuting an Elephant's director of photography is recorded as Edwin Stanton Porter[12].
  • Electrocuting an Elephant's IMDb ID is recorded as tt0231523[13].
  • Electrocuting an Elephant's original language of film or TV show is recorded as English[14].
  • Electrocuting an Elephant's Commons category is recorded as Electrocuting an Elephant[15].
  • Electrocuting an Elephant's color is recorded as black-and-white[16].
  • Electrocuting an Elephant's FilmAffinity film ID is recorded as 160451[17].
  • Electrocuting an Elephant's country of origin is recorded as United States[18].
  • Electrocuting an Elephant's publication date is recorded as +1903-01-01T00:00:00Z[19].
  • Electrocuting an Elephant's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0pl2yjr[20].
  • Electrocuting an Elephant's distributed by is recorded as Edison Manufacturing Company[21].
  • Electrocuting an Elephant's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Electrocuting an Elephant'}[22].
  • Electrocuting an Elephant's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11574', 'amount': '+74'}[23].
  • Electrocuting an Elephant's aspect ratio is recorded as 4:3[24].
  • Electrocuting an Elephant's ČSFD film ID is recorded as 137014[25].
  • Electrocuting an Elephant's Kinopoisk film ID is recorded as 471060[26].
  • Electrocuting an Elephant's EIDR content ID is recorded as 10.5240/47B2-D63E-8507-3280-BABC-M[27].

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Authorship and Creation

Electrocuting an Elephant's producer is recorded as Edison Studios[9]. Its director is recorded as Thomas Edison[6].

Publication

Electrocuting an Elephant's publication date is recorded as +1903-01-01T00:00:00Z[19]. Its original language of film or TV show is recorded as English[14]. Genres include silent film[7] and documentary film[8].

Why It Matters

Electrocuting an Elephant ranks in the top 1% of short_film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (486 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  24. [26] . Kinopoisk. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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