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Was it the murder of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand?

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Do you mean motion picture or still photography? – Luke Dec 11 '12 at 23:08
@Luke: I meant motion, but still is also interesting. – Felix Goldberg Dec 11 '12 at 23:21
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Does the murder of Topsy (1903) count? – Yannis Rizos Dec 12 '12 at 11:08
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Note for those researching this - a lot of early "combat" and "crime" footage were re-enactments supplied by the Edison Company for newsreels. (Edison went so far as to have a model of San Francisco built, set on fire and shook by a camera assistant, and sold this as footage of the San Francisco Earthquake). – RI Swamp Yankee Dec 12 '12 at 16:10
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Re murder of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand: it seems as if the relevant reel has gone missing: his arrival at the Sarajewo town hall and his funeral in Vienna in 1914 are both on film ... – Drux Dec 13 '12 at 13:23
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One potential resource is Wikipedia's list of filmed assassinations. Can anyone find any of those that preceed Alexander I of Yugoslavia in 1934? I picked that one at random, but a bit of google suggests that this may be the first assassination captured on film.

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