EXECUTION OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, the
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Title: EXECUTION OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, the
Reference number: 4413
Date: 1895, August
Production company: [ Edison]
Sound: silent
Original format: 35mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: fiction
Running time: 0.18 min
Description:
The gruesome beheading of Mary Queen of Scots.
Believed to be earliest surviving screen representation of Scottishness
From original preserved in Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Credits:
[p. Alfred Clark, Raff & Gammon]
[cast Robert Thomae] (Mary)
[camera William Heise]
country of origin US
Shotlist: [no title ] Mary Queen of Scots kneels with her head on the block and the axe severs her head uncleanly from her neck (0.37)