Tetrady not as good as all the hype

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Stoutor 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.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

kobe1413 An athlete (from Newark I presume) waves two clubs in a quick routine. This was filmed by W.K.L. Dickson and William Heise for the Edison Manufacturing Company. It was made using the horizontal-feed Kinetograph that was developed by Thomas Edison and Dickson.A big step forward, this film is much clearer than the previous three Monkeyshine films from the same group of people the in 1890. The movement of the boy is able to been see easily. Heise and Dickson' films would continue to improve in quality.Again not much to see here but maintains interest as a relic of a time long ago. I gave it a 2 out of 10.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) This is a particularly interesting document of movie history looking at the fact that it was recorded even before the first Olympic Games of the modern era 1896 in Athens. He wasn't there most likely, but here he gets the chance to show everybody 122 years later what he can do with the clubs.This is Dickson's first work after the Monkeyshines trilogy and while he was experimenting right in front of our eyes in that one, he's certainly done a lot of testing that we didn't witness in-between the projects as well. Newark Athlete is clearly improved and quality-wise several leagues above his previous work.

cricket crockett . . . one giant leap toward ESPN. What is truly amazing is not the fact that one of the world's first dozen movies is a sports feature, but the fact that this "NEWARK ATHLETE" has his less than scintillating routine with two wooden exercise clubs (think mini bowling pins) shown FOUR TIMES IN RAPID SUCCESSION. Exhibited with a total running time of just 5.11 seconds, close examination proves that the initial slow-motion view of 1.97 seconds is followed up BY THE SAME THING being shown over and over and over again at successively faster speeds. No wonder guys can sit through endless replays of the least little fumble or failed catch on a Sunday afternoon--they've had long enough since this 1891 flick to BECOME GENETICALLY MUTATED against boredom, reversing what evolution took tens of thousands of years to accomplish! Who knew subliminal messaging conducted FROM THE START of motion pictures would have such a powerful AND RAPID effect in transforming the male brain! For countless centuries the world depended on men. Thanks to Edison Manufacturing Company, about all we have left nowadays is game boys!!

Boba_Fett1138 This movie is a very short and simple experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film. Guess it sounds more complex than it really was.Basically all it shows is an 'athelete', who to me just seemed to be a random young boy, swinging a couple of Indian Clubs.The movie doesn't have the best visual quality and it seems to end perhaps just a second before it was really supposed to. It doesn't even have a halve swing now but more of a quarter swing. Also judging by the quality I'm not sure of it if this was a good successful experiment from Edison and workers but then again at that time of course all experiments were useful and contributed to the development of future movie making, this one included.6/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/