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The Ball Game

1898 film by William Heise
Movie short_film Q2409579
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The Ball Game

Summary

The Ball Game is a short film[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of short_film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (25 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Ball Game's instance of is recorded as short film[3].
  • The Ball Game's director is recorded as William Heise[4].
  • The Ball Game's genre is recorded as documentary film[5].
  • The Ball Game's genre is recorded as silent film[6].
  • The Ball Game's producer is recorded as Edison Manufacturing Company[7].
  • The Ball Game's IMDb ID is recorded as tt0000038[8].
  • The Ball Game's original language of film or TV show is recorded as English[9].
  • The Ball Game's color is recorded as black-and-white[10].
  • The Ball Game's country of origin is recorded as United States[11].
  • The Ball Game's publication date is recorded as +1898-01-01T00:00:00Z[12].
  • The Ball Game's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02rd7zz[13].
  • The Ball Game's distributed by is recorded as Edison Manufacturing Company[14].
  • The Ball Game's main subject is recorded as baseball[15].
  • The Ball Game's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Ball Game'}[16].
  • The Ball Game's different from is recorded as The Ball Game[17].
  • The Ball Game's aspect ratio is recorded as 4:3[18].
  • The Ball Game's ČSFD film ID is recorded as 626831[19].
  • The Ball Game's Kinopoisk film ID is recorded as 410975[20].
  • The Ball Game's EIDR content ID is recorded as 10.5240/663B-929B-4185-6378-893A-N[21].
  • The Ball Game's OFDb film ID is recorded as 175023[22].
  • The Ball Game's TMDB movie ID is recorded as 212574[23].
  • The Ball Game's SilentEra.com film ID is recorded as B/BallGame1898[24].
  • The Ball Game's Letterboxd film ID is recorded as the-ball-game-1898[25].
  • The Ball Game's copyright status is recorded as public domain[26].
  • The Ball Game's Trakt.tv ID is recorded as movies/the-ball-game-1898[27].

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Authorship and Creation

The Ball Game's producer is recorded as Edison Manufacturing Company[7]. Its director is recorded as William Heise[4].

Publication

The Ball Game's publication date is recorded as +1898-01-01T00:00:00Z[12]. Its original language of film or TV show is recorded as English[9]. Genres include documentary film[5] and silent film[6].

Subject and Themes

The Ball Game's main subject is recorded as baseball[15].

Why It Matters

The Ball Game ranks in the top 5% of short_film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (25 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

Related Entities

public domain United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . IMDb. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Q18709181. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Google Knowledge Graph. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Q18709181. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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