Watch Annie Oakley in an 1894 Short Film

[Bad Water Bill]

A link to the short film.

http://m.mentalfloss...le.php?id=69409

A blast from the past.:bigsmyl2:

(http://m.mentalfloss.com/article.php?id=69409)

[Ola]

Ok.. I don't know what I was expecting, but not that. Trick shooting has definitely changed over the years.

Nice to see a film Annie shooting though.

[Bad Water Bill]

It was filmed in Edison's original studio.

And now you can say that you have seen a film almost as old as me.[smilie=s:

[fouronesix]

I think that particular short clip appears in the PBS American Experience documentary about Annie Oakley. The short clip was done at Edison's small indoor studio at his request to promote his new invention. BTW, the American Experience documentary, "Annie Oakley" is worth watching if interested in an understanding of Annie Oakley.

[WILCO]

Thanks for the link Bill!

[Blackwater]

Thanks, Bill. Great link. Not many know she got that good by having to shoot stuff for the family to eat. If she missed, they might go hungry that night, so hits were important. No going to the grocery store back then when they were out of something. She'd also shoot stuff and sell any excess to get money for the staples she couldn't get from the woods. Folks today just don't understand that simple and basic a life. She beat the exhibition shooter that came to town, and in the process, made him fall in love with her. They married, and he became the target thrower for her for the rest of his life until he died. Very great woman and couple. Not many stories like theirs.

[foesgth]

Bill,
I seem to remember from a past post of yours that you used to date her mother.

[fouronesix]

In some of the few moving pictures of her, including this early Edison clip, you can see the natural skill and rhythm she possessed for shooting. There's a reason Sitting Bull gave her the nickname- Little Sure Shot.

[Bad Water Bill]

Bill,
I seem to remember from a past post of yours that you used to date her mother.

Sorry that your memeri B so bad..

It were her granny I dated.

[Ballistics in Scotland]

Frank Butler, Annie's husband, remained a noted exhibition shooter, and Annie's business manager, although both of them may have thrown the odd target or two. But they were pretty soon in the era of the spring ball-trap. Some people seem to find that immensely funny. I can't imagine why, can you?

The picture below shows, under an apartment I still own, the same poster which led my grandfather to see Buffalo Bill's show in small-town Scotland on September 13th 1904, with performances more than fifty miles away on the 12th and 14th. He was very disappointed that Miss Oakley wasn't there, having been told after a train wreck that she would never walk again. But she not only did, but was still setting shooting records in her sixties.

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Shooting in a studio would amply explain Annie's shooting feats looking easy. Most of them certainly weren't. I can't resist giving another historical item preserved by Edison's inventions. Here is Trumpeter Landfrey, from an Edison wax cylinder playing the Charge as he did for the Light Brigade at Balaclava in 1854.

https://archive.org/details/EDIS-SWDPC-01-04 (https://archive.org/details/EDIS-SWDPC-01-04)

[Artful]

Good Stuff - and more


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwlgmXHAXxg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwlgmXHAXxg

[Artful]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a24cjGIbBY0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a24cjGIbBY0

[Artful]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAyrBe219Ms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAyrBe219Ms

[Bad Water Bill]

thanks for posting the links

Now I can share them with the site I borrowed the original post from.

George

[Driver man]

Spring ball-trap is not a phrase I am familiar with. Can anyone elucidate?

[Ballistics in Scotland]

It was a device for throwing the glass balls which preceded clay pigeons. In its simplest form it was just a curved spring with a cup, bent back and held by a hook and string. It is illustrated in Greener's "The Gun and its Development", and I have a silver medallion with a picture of one, presented by an Aberdeen gunmaker to the Inverurie Glass Ball Club in 1886.

[ddixie884]

Cool.................

[StrawHat]

When Mr and Mrs Butler were shooting and winning prizes, the gold medals were just that, real gold. They would donate their prizes to orphanages and poor houses to help the patients. She was raised in Darke County Ohio.

Kevin

[flint45]

She was a very interestg person. I wish there was more film of her and with sound.