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Good story, Not enough for a whole film

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

In my previous reviews on Dickson and Heise's shorts I have often emphasized that many of them featured a talented athlete or dancer performing one of their popular routines. Such is the case with "Annie Oakley" a film featuring (Who else?) Annie Oakley herself. Here, her routine is shooting with accuracy. We see Annie (the true Annie herself) shooting glass balls and shooting holes through coins. And she doesn't miss, either! Truly an amazing show of skill, but much more interesting for the fact it shows a real true historical figure long gone. It's interesting to think how the people at the time actually reacted to this. I'm sure that many actually seen Oakley before in person, but for those who hadn't, well, go on an' visit Edison's Kinetoscope parlor and watch her on film! Also, I suppose this could take its place among the few Edison movies to feature a performer that is still remembered nowadays; most of them aren't.If you're a film buff, watch it for historical significance; if you're a history buff, watch it for seeing the real Oakley in action.

"Annie Oakley" is a very early silent short film and back in 1894 films became more and more popular, even if they were still black-and-white, still running only a few seconds and still silent obviously. Here we see a young woman who shows us how gifted she is with the gun. She has some pretty good precision and hits basically every non-moving target and later on even everything that her assistant throws up in the air. Good job from her. And one big exception for this short film is that the title character is actually still really famous today. Annie got her gun. The director of this film, which is over 120 years old, is William K. Dickson again, a film pioneer. This is not a great film by any means, but thanks to the title character actually a pretty interesting watch. Only for its time though.

Annie Oakley shows off her shooting prowess for the camera of William Heise and W.k.L. Dickson. She first shoots at targets on a board, and then fires at targets being tossed up into the air by an assistant. This was filmed at Edison's Black Maria studio in New Jersey.This film was more energetic than most shorts from 1894. Oakley's shooting seems to be live and real, especially when shooting at the board. It is hard to tell if she is hitting the tossed targets, but we can still tell the great skill she has. She was probably the biggest star the filmed by the Edison duo in 1894.I give it two out of ten stars.

After watching this 18.61-second film 9 times (twice in slow motion), Iv concluded that Annie hits 7 of 8 fixed targets with her first rifle, but NONE of her upwardly-thrown targets (including one lofted up TWICE by her male assistant; you can recycle targets ad infinitum when you always miss) with her second long gun. In defense of this Old West icon, she probably was not used to performing in a small black box, with the injunction to shoot BEFORE aiming in order to keep any possible "hits" within the view of a stationary camera. To meet the minimum review length requirement for this site, I might add that as a co-founder of B.A.N.G.S. (Broke Americans Need Gun Stamps), Annie's troubles in this flick prove that even the best markswoman sometimes needs an AK or Bushwhacker gun. If poor people deserve food just as much as rich people, they merit assault rifles even more so. Which means the government MUST give the indigent gun stamps to help them get the AKs and ample ammo which are now indispensable to survival in modern America. As they say, if you give a gal a fish, she will eat for a day. But if you give her an AK47, she can shoot all the fish in the barrel!