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    Electrocuting an Elephant (also known as Electrocution of an Elephant) is a 1903 American black-and-white silent actuality short depicting the killing...
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    Their film of the electrocution part was released to be viewed in coin-operated kinetoscopes under the title Electrocuting an Elephant. It is probably the...
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    poison, electrocution, and strangling. The Edison Manufacturing movie company shot a film of the execution called Electrocuting an Elephant. Tyke, circus...
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    1903 in the United States silentera.com, Electrocuting an Elephant, Also known as Electrocution of an Elephant in the USA (1903), American B&W : 70 feet...
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  • Great Train Robbery, The Infernal Cauldron, Life of an American Fireman, Electrocuting an Elephant, The Kingdom of the Fairies 1904 – The Impossible Voyage;...
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  • Broken film. Footage from the Edison Manufacturing Company film Electrocuting an Elephant is shown before "March of the Pigs". According to Russell Mills...
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    a crew to film it, releasing it that same year with the title Electrocuting an Elephant. As the film business expanded, competing exhibitors routinely...
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    Execution by elephant, or Gunga Rao, was a method of capital punishment in South and Southeast Asia, particularly in India, where Asian elephants were used...
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    The Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) is one of three extant recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant, native to mainland Asia. The species...
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  • released. What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City (1901) Electrocuting an Elephant (1903) Coney Island at Night (1905) The Thieving Hand (1908) Regeneration...
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    Fell and the head of the Buffalo ASPCA in a series of experiments electrocuting hundreds of stray dogs. They ran trials with the dog in water and out...
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    An elephant execution, sometimes called elephant lynching, is a pseudo-legal or performative public spectacle where a captive elephant is killed in order...
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  • librarian, she discovers Electrocuting an Elephant, the 1903 film shot by the Edison Studios of the electrocution of Topsy the Elephant. Louise decides to recreate...
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  • black-and-white, silent documentary film Electrocuting an Elephant, showing the footage of Topsy's electrocution. January 19 – The first west-east transatlantic...
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  • (GB) Electrocuting an Elephant, directed by Edwin S. Porter – (US) The Enchanted Well (Le Puits fantastique), directed by Georges Méliès – (France) An Extraordinary...
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    poisoning, electrocuting, and strangling the elephant in a smaller private affair that was captured in the short film Electrocuting an Elephant. Thompson...
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  • Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's...
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    The Sumatran elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus) is one of three recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant, and native to the Indonesian island of...
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  • being electrocuted while grazing in 1998. Of all the carrier elephants since the 20th-century, he is considered the best "because he possessed an excellent...
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    are surrounded by electric fences which, in June 2013, fatally electrocuted an elephant calf. In 2018, the park started taking bids on a project to pave...
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    City. The Edison Manufacturing Company would release the film Electrocuting an Elephant, documenting Topsy's death, later in the month. Died: Práxedes...
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    The elephant has been a contributor to Thai society and its icon for many centuries. The elephant has had a considerable impact on Thai culture. The Thai...
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  • 100 press photographers, and an Edison Manufacturing film crew (scenes from the Edison film Electrocuting an Elephant can be seen in this segment). In...
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    a film such as Electrocuting an Elephant would probably fall foul of the Act (had it been in force at the time), as the electrocution took place primarily...
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  • Down Where the Wurzburger Flows An East River Novelty East Side Urchins Bathing in a Fountain Electrocuting an Elephant The Extra Turn Fireboat "New Yorker"...
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  • An Apology to Elephants is a 2013 documentary that explores abuse and brutal treatment of elephants. It showcases elephant training and the psychological...
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    Elephants are an integral part of the Mysore Dasara Festival. The elephants form the core of the Mysore Dasara procession on the Vijayadashami day. The...
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    killed by an American dentist trophy hunter in 2015. Williams, Doug (26 February 2020). "South African Elephant Hunter Crushed by Elephant". News. Outdoor...
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    convicted person was executed varied widely but did, on occasion, include the elephant dismembering the victim by means of sharp blades attached to its feet....
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  • known as the boats, is reported by Plutarch in his Life of Artaxerxes as an ancient Persian method of execution. He describes the victim being trapped...
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