Film Homage Tearing Down The Spanish Flag 1898 Veteran's Day Parade Armory Park Tucson 1984
by David Lee Guss
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Film Homage Tearing Down The Spanish Flag 1898 Veteran's Day Parade Armory Park Tucson 1984
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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This statue in Tucson's Armory Park dates from the 1898 Spanish-American War. Within hours of the war declaration the first war film was created on the roof of a New York building; a fictitious rendering of the removal of a Spanish flag in Havana replaced by the raising of the stars & stripes.
The 90 second propaganda film was made by the newly formed Vitagraph Company, which survived until 1924 when it was bought by Warner Brothers.
This delightful short was produced by the movies first animator, J. Stuart Blackton (1875-1941) (the founder and head of Vitagraph), drawing in this 1900 effort,"The Enchanted Drawing."
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April 2nd, 2014
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