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.

About This Listing Report Omissions or Errors in This Listing

[Latham Pantoptikon Experimental Film]
(1895) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by [?] Otway Latham?

Cast: Woodville Latham, [?] Otway Latham?, [?] ? Lauste [young man]

Lambda Company production; distributed by [?] Lambda Company? / Pantoptikon spherical widegauge filmstock format. / The Pantoptikon system was capable of taking pictures and projecting them at approximately 40 frames per second. The young man seen in the film is Eugène Lauste’s son.

View.

Synopsis: Young men are seen wrestling, jumping and playing on the roof of the Frankfort Building with an older man sitting nearby smoking a pipe and reading a newspaper. The older man can also be seen removing a handkerchief from his pocket.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 22 August 2023.

References: Musser-Emerge pp. 94, 95, 96; Ramsaye-Million pp. 129-130, 136b.