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Here's a rather unsettling early Edison short released September 1905, direction credited to both Edwin S. Porter and Wallace McCutcheon by various sources, and also credits Kate Toncray, John R, Cumpson, and Arthur V. Johnson as appearing in it.

Be warned, it depicts an old-fashioned lynching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Peh578FJNkI&t=37s

RICHARD M ROBERTS