It's a circular pan of the Forbidden City, the central palace district of what's now called Beijing, which is a remarkable achievement for the year. It's shot by Raymond Ackerman (C.Fred Ackerman in some accounts), who did his stuff for American Mutoscope & Biograph in Phillipines during the Spanish-American War and later in China.
Most of the actualities of the period were reenactments, sometimes fanciful ones; sea battles fought in a bath tub, land battles on a field in New Jersey. With Ackerman's work, however, the audience got the real thing, the real people. Little is known of him. He sent films back to New York, they were released from 1899 through 1901... and then he vanished from the recor
Most of the actualities of the period were reenactments, sometimes fanciful ones; sea battles fought in a bath tub, land battles on a field in New Jersey. With Ackerman's work, however, the audience got the real thing, the real people. Little is known of him. He sent films back to New York, they were released from 1899 through 1901... and then he vanished from the recor
