Lasso Thrower

1894 film

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 (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]

Vicente Oropeza, Mexican Charro, introduced Trick Roping to the United States while working for Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show

## See also[edit]

* List of Western films before 1920

## References[edit]

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

## External links[edit]

* Lasso Thrower at IMDb

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Films directed by William Kennedy Dickson

* Monkeyshines (1889)
* Dickson Greeting (1891)
* Men Boxing (1891)
* Blacksmith Scene (1893)
* Annabelle Butterfly Dance (1894)
* Annie Oakley (1894)
* The Barbershop (1894)
* The Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's) (1894)
* Bucking Broncho (1894)
* Buffalo Bill (1894)
* Buffalo Dance (1894)
* Carmencita (1894)
* Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (1894)
* The Dancing Clown (1894)
* The Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)
* Fred Ott's Sneeze (1894)
* Lasso Thrower (1894)
* Leonard-Cushing Fight (1894)
* Luis Martinetti, Contortionist (1894)
* Mexican Knife Duel (1894)
* Sioux Ghost Dance (1894)
* Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1895)
* Dancing Darkies (1896)
* King John (1899)
* Santos Dumont Explaining His Air Ship to the Hon. C.S. Rolls (1901)
* Rip Van Winkle (1903)

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