Question: What kind of elephant is featured in the 1903 short filmed by Edwin S. Porter and Jacob Blair Smith?

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Runaway Match: Runaway Match or The Runaway Match, or Marriage by Motor (UK title Elopement à la Mode) is a 1903 short silent film consisting of nine shots.  It may be the "first auto-centered narrative film" and the first car chase in the movies.

Justus D. Barnes: Justus D. Barnes (October 2, 1862 – February 6, 1946) was an American stage and silent film actor.  Barnes is best known for his role as an outlaw in the 1903 short silent Western, "The Great Train Robbery".

Todd County, Minnesota: Todd County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota.  As of the 2010 census, the population was 24,895.  Its county seat is Long Prairie.  The county was formed in 1855 and organized in 1867.  It is named after John Blair Smith Todd, who was a delegate from Dakota Territory to the United States House of Representatives, and general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

John Blair Smith Todd: John Blair Smith Todd (April 4, 1814 – January 5, 1872) was a Delegate from Dakota Territory to the United States House of Representatives and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Betrothed (short story): "Betrothed" (Russian: Невеста , "Nevesta " ), translated also as "The Fiancee", is a 1903 short story by Anton Chekhov, first published in the No.12, December 1903 issue of "Zhurnal Dlya Vsekh".

Electrocuting an Elephant: Electrocuting an Elephant (also known as Electrocution of an Elephant) is a 1903 American, short, black-and-white, silent documentary film of the killing of the elephant Topsy by electrocution at a Coney Island amusement park.  It was produced by the Edison film company (part of the Edison Manufacturing Company) and is believed to have been shot by Edwin S. Porter or Jacob Blair Smith.

Blair Smith: Blair Smith (born September 25, 1990) is a Canadian football linebacker who plays for the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League (CFL).  He attended Angelo State University where he played college football for the Angelo State Rams.

John Blair Smith: John Blair Smith (June 12, 1756 – August 22, 1799) was born in Pequea, Pennsylvania Colony, the son of the Rev. Robert Smith, who ran a celebrated academy there.  Like his older brother, John Blair Smith was valedictorian of the Class of 1773 at the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University.  He was in the graduating class of 1771, with William Graham, the rector of Liberty Hall Academy (now Washington & Lee University) and Henry "Light Horse" Lee, governor of Virginia and father of Robert E. Lee.  He was recruited at the age of 19 to come to Virginia as a tutor at the new Hampden–Sydney College, then being founded by his elder brother, Rev. Samuel Stanhope Smith.

Topsy (elephant): Topsy (circa 1875 – January 4, 1903) was a female Asian elephant put to death at a Coney Island, New York amusement park by electrocution in January 1903.

Black and white hat symbolism in film: In United States films of the Western genre between the 1920s and the 1940s, white hats were often worn by heroes and black hats by villains to symbolize the contrast in good versus evil.  The 1903 short film "The Great Train Robbery" was the first to apply this convention.  Two exceptions to the convention were portrayals by William Boyd (active 1918–1954), who wore dark clothing as Hopalong Cassidy, and Robert Taylor's portrayal in the film "The Law and Jake Wade" (1958).

Supporting paragraphs: Electrocuting an Elephant Topsy (elephant)
Answer: Asian