The Ball Game
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Country United States | 4.6/10 IMDb Genre Documentary, Short, Sport Language Silent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date May 20, 1898 (1898-05-20) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Take me out to the ball game
The Ball Game is an 1898 American short black-and-white silent documentary sports film produced and distributed by Edison Manufacturing Company.
Contents
Take me out to the ball game
Plot
The film contains footage of an 1898 baseball game between Reading Phillies and the Newark Bears. The camera is situated twenty feet from the bag and a short extract of the game is then filmed.
Current status
Given its age, this short film is available to freely be downloaded from the Internet. It has also featured in a number of film collections including Diamonds on the Silver Screen.
References
The Ball Game Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA
The Ball Game IMDb The Ball Game themoviedb.org