Portrayal_of_Lord_Cardigan_in_1912_Edison_film_"The_Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade".jpeg


Summary

Description
English: Unidentified performer on horseback in full British uniform portraying Lord Cardigan in the 1912 Edison film The Charge of the Light Brigade ; scene just before Cardigan leads the charge of British cavalry against Russian forces near Balaklava in the Crimea, 1854; mounted troops in background are United States Army cavalry from Fort D. A. Russell in Wyoming who served as extras in film; the unidentified performer portraying Cardigan may have also been a trooper from Fort Russell; this image is a screenshot image from Edison's 1916 reprint of the film made from 1912 master negatives and part the company's rerelease of the film in 1916 and distributed again to United States and foreign theaters.
Date October 1912; rereleased June 1916
Source

Original publication : Image part of film originally released in October 1912

Immediate source : Screenshot from video copy of "The Charge of the Light Brigade (1912) [1916 re-release version]" generally available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfKo0dVnuDw
Author

Edison Studios, Bronx, New York; a division of Thomas A. Edison, Inc.

(Life time: pre-1925 frame from film by defunct company; expired copyright in public domain)
Other information
English: This image was copied, cropped, and sized for article formatting by Wikipedia contributor Strudjum on August 28, 2020


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Portrayal of Lord Cardigan (uncredited performer), who led the British cavalry charge

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