A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Frank Baldwin (center). Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Frank Baldwin [Steele Ayers, the bandmaster], Fred W. Boardman, William Cushing, Ad. Dorsch, E.P. Brown, J.F. Boardman, George Goddard, E.F. Balch, Paul Pfarr.

Edison Manufacturing Company production; distributed by Raff & Gammon [?] and Maguire & Baucus [Continental Commerce Company]? / From the musical play A Milk White Flag by Charles Hoyt. Cinematography by William Heise. / No copyright registration. / Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Early Kinetograph camera films were shot at approximately 48 frames per second. One of five films taken circa late November 1894 of the cast from the stage production. [?] Magliozzi-Treasures n. 3651 suggests that the director may have been Julian Mitchell.

Performance.

Synopsis: [Raff & Gammon catalog, October 1894, page ?] Band Drill. Hoyt’s “Milk White Flag.” • [Maguire & Baucus catalog, page ?] From “Milk White Flag.” Marching band with leader at the head.

Survival status: Prints exist in the George Eastman Museum film archive; in the Library of Congress film archive (Gordon Hendricks collection); and in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 21 March 2012.

References: Film viewing : Altman-Sound p. 82; Fell-History p. 14; Magliozzi-Treasures n. 3651; Musser-Emerge pp. 78, 116, 598; Ramsaye-Million p. 838; Robinson-Palace pp. 44, 63, 64 : Website-LoC.

Home video: DVD.