Dickson, the Scottish-French inventor who, while under the employ of Thomas Edison, developed one of the first fully functional motion picture cameras.

[1] 102 years later, in 1995, Blacksmithing Scene was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

It is believed to have been filmed in April 1893 and was shown publicly, in a Kinetoscope viewer, at the Brooklyn Institute on May 9, 1893.

[3] According to the Internet Movie Database, the film was made in a 35 mm format with an aspect ratio of 1.33:1.

Because the film was finished before 1925, its copyright has expired; it is freely available on the World Wide Web.