当時の報道では、公開された動画が「頭を下げ、微笑み、手を振って帽子を取る... (It bowed and smiled and waved its hands and took off its hat...)」などと報じられた[4]。そうした映像が存在したことを示唆する断片的な画像も伝えられているが[5]、現在残されている映像は、体の前で片手に帽子を持ったディクソンが、両手で持つように動作する3秒ほどの短い動画を[6]ループさせたものである[2]。
^Eagan, Daniel (2011-11-24). America's Film Legacy, 2009-2010. Bloomsbury Publishing USA,. "... Edison hired William Heise, who had experience with similar machines, to assist Dickson. They built a horizontal-feed camera that exposed images on a 3/4-inch film strip. Small perforations helped move the film through the mechanism. / The first examples were viewed through a peephole
device Edison would market as the "Kinetoscope." Edison showed what later become known as Dickson Greeting to members of the Federation of Women'S Club on May 20, 1891." - Google books