''Band and Battalion of the U.S. Indian School'' is a silent film documentary made on April 30, 1901 by
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company made in
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Carlisle is a Borough (Pennsylvania), borough in and the county seat of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. Carlisle is located within the Cumberland Valley, a highly productive agricultural region. As of the 2020 United States census, ...
, USA. The cinematographer was
Arthur Marvin
Arthur Weed Marvin (May 26, 1859 – January 18, 1911), was an American cinematographer who worked for the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in which his brother Harry Marvin was one of the four founders (the others being Herman Casler, ...
. It depicts a parade drill by the cadet corps of the American Indian School which includes many representatives of the
Native American tribes in the United States. The head of the parade was the renowned Carlisle Ban
of the
Carlisle Indian Industrial School. In 1902 Marvin produced another documentary, ''Club Swinging at Carlisle Indian School'' for AM&B.
[Joanna Hearne, ''Native Recognition: Indigenous Cinema and the Western'' (2012) p 372]
See also
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American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
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Silent films
References
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1901 films
American silent short films
American black-and-white films
Black-and-white documentary films
American short documentary films
Documentary films about Native Americans
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
1900s short documentary films
1900s American films
1900s English-language films
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