The Martyred Presidents 1901

  • 1901-10-19
  • 1m
  • Edwin S. Porter
  • United States
  • English
  • Edison Manufacturing Company
  • Documentary, History
This film is difficult to classify. It opens on a scene showing a mourner with bowed head sitting in front of what appears to be a tombstone. Shortly afterwards, the face of Abraham Lincoln and then of two other presidents, Garfield and McKinley, can be seen on the monument and then they disappear. There is a figure huddled at the foot of a statue of Justice, as if asking forgiveness.

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