The Ball Game | |
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Distributed by | Edison Manufacturing Company |
Release date(s) | May 20, 1898 |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent |
The Ball Game is an 1898 American short black-and-white silent documentary sports film produced and distributed by Edison Manufacturing Company.
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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.
Given its age, this short film is available to freely download from the Internet. It has also featured in a number of film collections including Diamonds on the Silver Screen. [1]