Going Way, Way Back: Edison’s Short Baseball Film…

The treasure trove on YouTube continues to amaze me. For your viewing pleasure, here is a short film (Duration: 0:27 at 28 fps.) of a baseball game shot in 1898 (not a typo!) by Thomas Edison (yes, THAT Edison).

According to this website there was a camera positioned behind home plate. The clip shows a game in progress with action showing two players running towards the camera.

I’ll admit I watched it the first time without this setup (description) and thought the guys were running at first base.

Anyway, it’s pretty cool to think something from well over a 100 years ago (do the math) has been preserved.

Special thanks to Bill Lewis from the Baseball Hot Corner (Google+) community for pointing this out.

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