Plot: Annie Oakley was probably the most famous marksman/woman in the world when this short clip was produced in Edison's Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey. Barely five feet tall, Annie was always associated with the wild west, although she was born in 1860 as Phoebe Ann Oakley Mozee (or Moses)in Darke County, Ohio
Release Date:
Thursday, November 1 1894 130 years ago
Annie Oakley
William K.L. Dickson
William Heise