Lasso Thrower

Lasso Thrower
Lasso Thrower
Directed by	William Kennedy Dickson
Produced by	William Kennedy Dickson
Starring	Vicente Oropeza
Cinematography	William Heise
Distributed by	Edison Manufacturing Company
Release date	1894;
Running time	60 seconds
Country	United States
Languages	Silent; English intertitles

Lasso Thrower is a lost 1894 black-and-white short silent film from Edison Studios, produced by William K. L. Dickson with William Heise as cinematographer. It has a 60-second runtime and was filmed on a single reel, using standard 35 mm gauge, in Edison's Black Maria studio. The film, an exhibition of roping skills by Mexican vaquero Vicente Oropeza is one of several shot by Dickson and Heise after Thomas Edison invited William F. Cody and his Buffalo Bill's Wild West show performers to the kinetoscope studio.^[1]^[2]

References[edit]

^ "Lasso Thrower on the Silver Screen". University of Oklahoma Press. August 2013. Retrieved September 11, 2021.
^ Musser, Charles (1997). Edison Motion Pictures, 1890–1900: An Annotated Filmography. Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 140–141. ISBN 978-88-86155-07-6.

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