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{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Blacksmithing Scene | image = BlacksmithScene.jpg | caption = Image from ''Blacksmithing Scene'' | director = [[William Kennedy Dickson|William K.L. Dickson]] | producer = | writer = | starring = Charles Kayser<br>John Ott | music = | cinematography = [[William Heise]] | editing = | distributor = [[Edison Manufacturing Company]] | released = {{film date|1893|5|9}} | runtime = 34 seconds | country = United States | language = [[Silent film|Silent]] | budget = | gross = }} [[File:Blacksmith Scene.ogv|thumb|''Blacksmithing Scene'']] '''''Blacksmith Scene''''' (also known as '''''Blacksmith Scene #1''''' and '''''Blacksmithing Scene''''') is an 1893 American [[Short film|short]] [[black-and-white]] [[silent film]] directed by [[William Kennedy Dickson|William K.L. Dickson]], the [[Scottish people|Scottish]]-[[French people|French]] [[inventor]] who, while under the employ of [[Thomas Edison]], developed one of the first fully functional [[film|motion picture]] [[movie camera|cameras]]. It is historically significant as the first [[Kinetoscope]] film shown in public exhibition on May 9, 1893, and is the earliest known example of actors performing a role in a film. It was also the first U.S. motion picture film ever copyrighted that same year.<ref>{{cite web |title=Scholar at the Library of Congress Identifies the First Motion Picture Ever Copyrighted |url=https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/scholar-at-the-library-of-congress-identifies-the-first-motion-picture--ever-copyrighted/s/6b6eaee5-b504-4776-82f7-f6c2fc114c18 |website=Library of Congress Newsroom |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=25 February 2024 |date=13 October 2022}}</ref> 102 years later, in 1995, ''Blacksmithing Scene'' was selected for preservation in the United States [[National Film Registry]] by the [[Library of Congress]] as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|access-date=2020-09-17|website=Library of Congress}}</ref> It is the second-oldest film included in the Registry, after ''[[Newark Athlete]]'' (1891).
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