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    President McKinley and escort going to the Capitol "The film begins by showing military personnel on horseback. The camera was positioned on a side street and photographed representatives of several different companies of American cavalry. Just as the film ends, foot soldiers and West Point cadets preceding the two horse-drawn carriages, one containing President McKinley's party, come into view"--Early motion pictures. "This most excellent picture was secured at the junction of Pennsylvania...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S. - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1901
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    Love and war "An illustrated song telling the story of a hero who leaves for the war as a private, is promoted to the rank of captain for bravery in service, meets the girl of his choice, who is a Red Cross nurse on the field, and finally returns home triumphantly as an officer to the father and mother to whom he bade good bye as a...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1899
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    Luis Martinetti
    Variant title from Edison films 1890-1900: Louis Martinetti | Erroneous title from Edison films 1890-1900: Louis Martinelli | Title in Maguire & Baucus catalogue: Louis Martinetti, contortionist     "Gymnast and contortionist, performing on flying rings"--Raff & Gammon price list.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Martinetti, Luis - Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie) - Hendricks (Gordon) Collection (Library of Congress) - Heise, William
    • Date: 1894
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    Reclaiming American history from paper rolls by the Renovare ...
    Variant title: Reclaiming American history from paper prints by the Renovare process     Describes the project to convert over two million feet of original positive photographic paper rolls in the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress to 16 mm. safety film. Follows the steps in the conversion process used by the Renovare Film Company, including the frame-by-frame photographing of the paper prints. Includes scenes from some of the pre-1912 films reproduced.
    • Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Ohio State University Collection (Library of Congress) - Niver, Kemp R. - Primrose Productions
    • Date: 1953
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    TR in New Mexico, 1916
    Theodore Roosevelt in New Mexico, 1916     On Oct. 23, 1916, Theodore Roosevelt campaigns for Republican presidential nominee Charles Evans Hughes and assails the Wilson administration in Albuquerque, N.M. A young woman rides on horseback carrying a bouquet of flowers. There is an auto parade. Roosevelt passes by in an open touring car. Seated next to him is a man who appears to be Albert B. Fall, one of New Mexico's...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Pathé Exchange - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1916
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    TR speaking to a group of men from the porch at Sagamore Hill...
    Theodore Roosevelt speaking to a group of men from the porch at Sagamore Hill, 1916     On May 27, 1916, groups of men, the 7th Regiment Band, and several children march on the road from the Oyster Bay railroad station to Sagamore Hill to demonstrate their support of TR for the 1916 Presidential nomination. Views of TR addressing the large crowd assembled on the lawn of Sagamore Hill. The rally was organized by the Roosevelt Non-Partisan League of New York...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - International Newsreel Corporation - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1916
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    Execution of Czolgosz, with panorama of Auburn Prison The film begins by showing railroad cars in the foreground with the overshadowing walls of a state prison in the background. The second camera position, from a higher elevation, pans slowly showing the yard interior of the prison and some of the large buildings. There is a dissolve from the exterior to the interior, a set of a stone wall with an iron barred...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1901
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    Japanese acrobats An Oriental man and boy walk on a stage with a painted backdrop of a garden or park, give a slight bow to the camera as if it were an audience member, and remove their silk jackets. Both wear dark tights and leotards with light-colored slippers; the man also wears grey trunks, and the boy sports a white cloth around his middle. Lying on...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1904
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    Annie Oakley Annie Oakley, the "Little Sure Shot" of the "Wild West," in an exhibition of rifle shooting.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Oakley, Annie - Hendricks (Gordon) Collection (Library of Congress) - Heise, William
    • Date: 1895
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    Colonel Roosevelt is invited to fly in Arch Hoxsey's plane at... While participating in the Missouri State Republican Party's campaign on October 11, 1910, TR is invited to fly in a biplane with Arch Hoxsey as pilot. Accompanied by Herbert S. Hadley, Governor of Missouri (1909-1913) and two men who appear to be Henry W. Kiel, Mayor of St. Louis, and Sheriff Louis Nolte, TR arrives in motorcade at Kinloch Aviation Field; man, who appears...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1910
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    Terrible Teddy, the grizzly king "A burlesque on Theodore Roosevelt hunting mountain lions in Colorado and taken from the New York Journal and Advertiser. The scene opens in a very picturesque wood. Teddy with his large teeth is seen running down the hill with his gun in hand, followed by his photographer and press agent. He reconnoitres around a large tree and finally discovers the mountain lion. He kneels...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1901
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    Taking President McKinley's body from train at Canton, Ohio
    Title from Edison films catalog, no. 135: Body leaving the train at Canton, Ohio | Title from Edison films catalog, no. 225: Body leaving the train, Canton, Ohio     "Here, as in the other pictures, we secured a most advantageous location, and we present a life-size view of the casket containing the body of President McKinley as it is slowly and carefully taken from the window of the car which bore it from the Capitol to Canton. The casket is placed upon the shoulders of ten stalwart sailors and soldiers and borne to...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
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    Naval apprentices at sail drill on historic ship "Constellation" "This picture opens with the young cadets climbing the rigging and going through the sail drill on board the famous historic ship "Constellation." Loosing sail to buntline, making sail, shortening sail and furling; also loose sail to bowline. This picture is absolutely perfect photographically; also very thrilling, and makes a most interesting subject. 125 feet"--Edison films catalog.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1900
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    [Buster and Tige put a balloon vendor out of business]
    Title in Early motion pictures catalog: Buster Brown series: Buster and Tige put a balloon vendor out of business | Title on paper roll: Buster and Tige puts a baloon vender out of business | Title in Before the nickelodeon: Buster and the balloon vender | Title in Edison films catalog: Buster Brown series, scene V     "Shows an Italian balloon vender near the "Flat-iron" Building, New York City. Mrs. Brown and Buster appear on the scene. Buster begins teasing his mamma to buy him a balloon, but she refuses. Buster whistles for Tige, and at the same time jostles the vender, who roughly brushes him aside. Seeing a chance to get a balloon for nothing, Buster sets Tige upon the...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Outcault, Richard Felton - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1904
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    Visitin' 'round at Coolidge Corners
    Visitin' round Coolidge Corners     Shows scenes of Calvin Coolidge at his summer home in Plymouth, Vermont, including Coolidge helping out on the neighboring farm of cousin Ed Blanchard; in the "summer White House" above the Plymouth post office; attending church with his father John Calvin, wife Grace Goodhue, and son John; and visiting with his future vice-president, General Charles Dawes. May be a compilation of newsreel footage taken...
    • Contributor: Coolidge, Calvin - Afi/Casselton (Harold)/LARSON (Ted) Collection (Library of Congress) - Blanchard, Edward J. - Coolidge, Grace Goodhue - Coolidge, John - Dawes, Charles Gates
    • Date: 1924-01-01
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    Buster makes room for his mama at the bargain counter
    Title in Early motion pictures catalog: Buster Brown series: Buster makes room for his mama at the bargain counter | Title in Before the nickelodeon: Buster cleans a bargain counter | Title in Edison films catalog: Buster Brown series, scene III     "Shows a bargain counter in a department store and a large gathering of women examining goods. It is a special sale, and a great deal of interest is shown by the ladies, who jostle and crowd each other to secure the choicest bargains. Mrs. Brown enters, accompanied by Buster and Tige. Mrs. Brown is unable to get near the counter and is in despair....
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Outcault, Richard Felton - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1904
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    The story of the Panama Canal. [No. 1]
    Variant title from Roosevelt Memorial Association: Panama Canal | Title in Theodore Roosevelt Association catalog: The story of the Panama Canal [1]     The story of the Panama Canal construction, which TR considered one of his most valuable contributions to foreign affairs. Most prominent views are of the need for building the canal, the early attempts, the actual construction, and finally the canal in operation. [Part 1]: Sequences of stills, mostly maps, showing the need for a shorter way from ocean to ocean; views of the early...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Gentry, Caroline - Roosevelt Memorial Association. Film Library
    • Date: 1927
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    Naval sham battle at Newport
    Title in Edison films catalog, no. 105: Naval sham battle at Newport Naval Training School     "Showing the attacking forces drawn up in line of battle. They immediately commence firing on the shore batteries. The batteries return the fire with telling effect, but are at last silenced by the overwhelming forces of the enemy. In the distance can be seen the ruins of a bridge destroyed by the invading forces. The smoke thickens as the firing becomes general, and the...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1900
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    President Roosevelt at the Canton station
    Title in Edison film company catalog, no. 135: President Roosevelt at Canton station | Variant title from AFI catalog, film beginnings, 1893-1910: President Roosevelt, Canton station     "In this picture we show President Roosevelt and Cabinet standing at the station with bare heads, while the casket of President McKinley is being placed in the hearse. As the hearse leaves the station the President and his Cabinet start for their carriages. Our panoramic device is here started and this picture finishes with a circular panorama of the Canton station and Public Square....
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
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    Morning colors on U.S. cruiser "Raleigh" "Shows a group of sailors and an officer at the stern. The flag runs out in a ball to the end of the staff, and, at the signal, is broken. Proudly the Stars and Stripes wave in the morning breeze, while the officer salutes. A very pretty picture of man-o-war life"--The Phonoscope, June 1899, p. 17.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1899
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    A corner in wheat A greedy tycoon decides, on a whim, to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing the grain's producers into charity lines and further into poverty. Shows the differences between the lives of those who work to grow the wheat and the life of the man who dabbles in its sale for profit.
    • Contributor: Johnson, Arthur V. - Griffith, D. W. (David Wark) - Biograph Company - Bruce, Kate - Quirk, Billy - Sennett, Mack - Hart, Ruth - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Bitzer, G. W. - Kirkwood, James ... Johnson, Arthur V. - Griffith, D. W. (David Wark) - Biograph Company - Bruce, Kate - Quirk, Billy - Sennett, Mack - Hart, Ruth - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Bitzer, G. W. - Kirkwood, James - Macpherson, Jeanie - Moore, Owen - Walthall, Henry B. (Henry Brazeale) - Harron, Robert - Nichols, George - West, Dorothy - Woods, Frank E. - O'Sullivan, Tony - Haldeman, Edith - Powell, Frank E. - Arvidson, Linda - Norris, Frank - Egan, Gladys - Butler, William J. - Dillon, Edward - Craig, Charles B. - Mailes, Charles H. (Charles Hill) - Sweet, Blanche - Henderson, Grace - Robinson, Gertrude - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Miller, W. Christy - Evans, Frank
    • Date: 1909
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    Arabian gun twirler A bearded man performs a rifle twirling act on a stage with a painted backdrop of a city street corner. He wears a white turban and a dark two-piece costume of tunic and baggy pants that narrow at the knees; perhaps the costume of an Arab infantryman. The tricks he performs include throwing the spinning rifle in the air and catching it; twirling the...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Cheriff, Hadji - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1899
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    Within our gates Sylvia Landry, a young black woman, is visiting her cousin, Alma Prichard, in the North. After Alma uses her wicked step-brother Larry to break Sylvia's engagement, Sylvia returns to the South. She meets Rev. Jacobs, a minister who runs a school for black children, which is facing closure. Sylvia volunteers to go to Boston to attempt to raise funds. Upon arriving, her purse is...
    • Contributor: Lucas, Charles D. - Preer, Evelyn - Micheaux Film Corporation - Ruffin, James D. - Edwards, Mattie - Chenault, Jack - Starks, William - Clements, Flo - Jacks, S. T. (Samuel True) - Micheaux, Oscar
    • Date: 1993
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    Departure of Peary [and the] "Roosevelt" from New York
    Departure of Peary [and] Roosevelt from New York | Departure of Peary for the North Pole     The camera pans to show the schooner "Roosevelt" docked at a covered pier on the Hudson River on Manhattan's west side. Then, from a camera position on board, men in straw hats and fashionably dressed ladies are seen boarding the ship. Next, the famous polar explorer Robert Peary appears on the gangway in a dark jacket, mustache and straw hat. He tips his hat,...
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1905-01-01
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    Cake walk
    Title in American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue, Nov. 1902 [MI], p. 12: Coon cake walk | Title in Biograph photo catalog, v. 1 [MI]: Darkey cake walk | Cakewalk     Five African Americans--three men and two women--perform a cakewalk, a dance featuring fancy strutting that was named after the prize awarded in the original contests. The dancers wear rather formal attire, with the men in dark suits and black tie and the women in full-length, high-collared dark dresses; one woman carries a small American flag. As they step in place against a light background,...
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1897
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    Spanish dancers at the Pan-American Exposition
    Variant title from Edison films catalog, no. 135: Gypsy dance at the Pan-American Exposition     "The picture was taken in the Gypsy tent at the Pan-American Exposition and shows ten beautiful Gypsy girls executing the famous Gypsy dance that created such a furor at the Exposition. Features of the well known couchee couchee are introduced by some of the dancers. The scene is both artistic and entrancing. 75 ft."--Edison films catalog, no. 135.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    Copyright title: Theodore Roosevelt leaving the White House | Alternate title: Hon. Theo. Roosevelt, Ass't Sec'y, U.S. Navy leaving White House | Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary, United States Navy leaving White House | Roosevelt Memorial Association inventory title: TR as Assistant Secretary of the Navy leaving the White House, 1897 | Theodore Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the Navy leaving the White House, 1897     TR, in formal dress with hat, walks down the steps of the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C. and turns and walks toward the stationary camera. The south portico of the White House is visible through trees in background.
    • Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope Company
    • Date: 1898
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    President McKinley taking the oath "This film records President McKinley taking the oath of office. The first camera position shows the seating arrangements prepared for the spectators and witnesses on the steps of the Capitol. At the time the film was taken, there were many empty seats. The second camera position shows the inaugural party during the swearing-in ceremonies. All that can be seen is the black draped balcony...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
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    The life of Buffalo Bill. Parts I-III
    Life of Buffalo Bill | Erroneous title: Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Far East     Several events from Buffalo Bill Cody's life are reenacted in the form of dreamed flashbacks. Many scenes are from the Wild West show scenarios, including Buffalo Bill taking the scalp of Yellow Hand, an Indian attack on a wagon train, and a posse chase of a bandit named "Buck McCandell". The film is bookended by shots of the real Buffalo Bill preparing to nap...
    • Contributor: Buffalo Bill & Pawnee Bill Film Co - Ernst (Louise) Collection (Library of Congress) - O'Brien, John B.
    • Date: 1912
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    Sarah Bernhardt addresses crowd in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 1917 On July 4, 1917, French actress Sarah Bernhardt speaks in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, N.Y., on behalf of French-American cooperation in the war effort. Addressing more than 50,000 people gathered around a decorated music platform, Mme. Bernhardt stands and speaks from an open touring car parked in front of the platform. Medium close shot of Mme. Bernhardt speaking and gesturing, with man who may be...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1917
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    Kawana Trio
    Inventory title: Spanuth's vodvil - Zouary no. 159 | Title in MAVIS: Zouary can no. 159     Opening title identifies the Kawana Trio as "artistic foot jugglers." The camera iris opens to reveal three Asians--two men and a woman--dressed in kimonos and looking down. They raise their heads and look at the camera, smiling, as the iris closes. Another iris effect opens to a stage with a dark background and a decorated, cushioned platform center stage. The men now wear white...
    • Contributor: Spanuth, Hans A. - Kawana Trio - Commonwealth Pictures Corporation - Afi/Zouary (Maurice) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1919
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    McKinley's funeral entering Westlawn Cemetery, Canton [Ohio]
    McKinley's funeral entering West Lawn Cemetery, Canton | Title from Edison films catalog: Funeral cortege entering Westlawn Cemetery at Canton, Ohio     "Funeral Cortege Entering Westlawn Cemetary at Canton, Ohio. Another of our cameras is in an excellent position at the entrance to the Westlawn Cemetery, Canton, Ohio, and as the funeral procession approaches, it is set in motion. The first to appear in this scene is the Black Horse Cavalry, Troop A, of Cleveland, Ohio, followed by the G.A.R. escort, the members of which make...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
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    [Charles E. Hughes speaking during campaign, Duquesne, Pa., 1...
    Universal animated weekly     Presidential candidate Charles Evans Hughes campaigns in Pittsburgh vicinity on Sept. 27, 1916. Hughes was on a strenuous tour in an attempt to knit together various Republican factions. In Pittsburgh area he was joined by Republican notables, some of whom had been at odds with him: Senator Boies Penrose, Philander Knox, William Flinn. Hughes spoke in opposition to the eight-hour day and was silent...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Community Motion Picture Service, Inc - Universal Film Manufacturing Company - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1916
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    [Dickson greeting]
    Variant LC title: Early Edison camera tests     Experimental film made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Edison Collection (Library of Congress) - Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie) - Heise, William
    • Date: 1891
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    Sandow
    Variant title from Biograph production log: Sandow (no breathing)     Strong-man Eugene (Eugen) Sandow poses in a long shot on a bare stage against a black background, wearing only tight trunks and laced sandals. He begins with his arms folded against his chest, looking off screen left, then strikes a variety of poses that accentuate his muscular development. These positions include flexing his right arm with the fist to his head and face to...
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Sandow, Eugen - American Mutoscope Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1896
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    Three jumping Tommies
    Title from M/B/RS copyright descriptions, L14866: Three jumping acrobatic Tommies | Title from Film & Television catalog card: Unidentified Peters No 3: Vaudeville acts     Opening title introduces "Three jumping Tommies in their original acrobatic stunts," with "Tommies" apparently referring to the performers' British military uniform costumes of caps, shirts and ties, knickers to the knees, tights, and short boots. Cuts to a long shot of a stage with a painted backdrop of a garden with fountains. From stage right march three young men; a short boy flanked by...
    • Contributor: Spanuth, Hans A. - Afi/Peters (S.E.) Collection (Library of Congress) - Commonwealth Pictures Corporation
    • Date: 1920
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    The River of Doubt. [No. 2]
    Title in Theodore Roosevelt Association film catalog: River of Doubt [2]     Several members of TR's group pose aboard the Vandyck, the ship on which TR sailed from New York in the fall of 1913. Left to right are: Anthony Fiala, former arctic explorer and photographer for a portion of the journey, George K. Cherrie, ornithologist, Father John A. Zahm, a friend of TR's, Kermit Roosevelt, Frank Harper, TR's secretary, and Leo E. Miller, mammalogist. Several...
    • Contributor: Fiala, Anthony - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Roosevelt Memorial Association - Gentry, Caroline - Roosevelt Memorial Association. Film Library - Roosevelt, Theodore
    • Date: 1928
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    Funeral of Hiram Cronk The film shows a city thoroughfare lined with crowds of people watching a military parade. The first group to come into view is a marching band, then a large formation of soldiers in the uniform of Rough Riders. Following them is a hearse drawn by four black horses, escorted by veterans of the Civil War, and horse-drawn open carriages. The camera position shifts and...
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1905-01-01
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    President McKinley's funeral, 1901. [No. 1]
    Title in Theodore Roosevelt Association film collection catalog: President McKinley's funeral, 1901 [1]     Three sequences of the funeral ceremonies held for President William McKinley: Sequence 1: McKinley's body lay in state in the Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington, D.C. on Sept. 17, 1901; views of officers on horseback, the Artillery Band (wearing dark headdresses), a squadron of cavalry, a battalion of artillery and coast artillery, Marine Band (wearing white helmets), battalion of Marines, civilians carrying umbrellas (may...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Biograph Company - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
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    President Harding and Calvin Coolidge [1] Various scenes of the official notification ceremonies held on July 22, 1920 for Warren G. Harding, selected as the Presidential candidate by 17th Republican National Convention and Calvin Coolidge, selected as the Vice Presidential nominee. Opening views of Harding, followed by scenes of him and his wife, Florence Kling Harding, in Marion, Ohio; Harding, Coolidge, and Will H. Hays, Republican National Committee chairman, getting...
    • Contributor: Morrow, Edwin P. - Coolidge, Calvin - Lodge, Henry Cabot - Hays, Will H. (Will Harrison) - Harding, George T. - Community Motion Picture Service, Inc - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Harding, Florence Kling - Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel) - Republican National Convention
    • Date: 1920
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    The martyred presidents "The scene opens with a beautiful woman who represents Columbia seated at the altar of Justice. As if from out of space there slowly appears a perfect and lifelike picture of Abraham Lincoln. The forming of the picture is first noticed by the appearance of what seems to be a mere spot on the front of the altar. This spot slowly enlarges and is...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1901
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    TR's arrival in Panama, November 1906. [No. 2]
    Theodore Roosevelt's arrival in Panama, November 1906     TR became the first President in office to visit a foreign country while on an inspection tour of the Panama Canal. On November 15, 1906, in Panama City there are views of the processional, including a marching band and escorts on horseback, as spectators gather; long shot of TR, accompanied by Manuel Amador Guerrero, first President of Panama, and two unidentified men standing on...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Miles, Herbert J.
    • Date: 1906
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    [Men boxing]
    Variant LC title: Early Edison camera tests     Experimental film made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Edison Collection (Library of Congress) - Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie) - Heise, William
    • Date: 1891
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    [Buster's revenge on the tramp]
    Title in Early motion pictures catalog: Buster Brown series: Buster's dog to the rescue | Title in Edison films catalog: Buster Brown series, scene I     "The opening scene shows Bridget asleep at the kitchen-table, and Buster enters on tip-toe. After tying her apron over her head and to the back of the chair, he tries to reach a jar of jam on the top shelf of the pantry. After several futile attempts, he gives up. His attention is now attracted by a tramp at the window. Buster beckons the...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Outcault, Richard Felton - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1904
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    TR speaking at Sagamore Hill [1916-1918] [1]
    Theodore Roosevelt speaking at Sagamore Hill [1916-1918] | Roosevelt Memorial Association title: TR speaking at Sagamore Hill, 1917 | Roosevelt Memorial Association title: TR speaking at Sagamore Hill, 1917-1918 | Theodore Roosevelt speaking at Sagamore Hill, 1917 | Theodore Roosevelt speaking at Sagamore Hill, 1917-1918 | Title from film leader: Editorial by the late Theodore Roosevelt     Three sequences of TR addressing groups from the porch at Sagamore Hill. First sequence is TR speaking to a group of people on Sept. 8, 1917 at the opening of the second New York State suffrage campaign at Sagamore Hill. Second sequence is probably TR encouraging New York District volunteer workers for the third Liberty Loan on Apr. 2, 1918. Final views of TR...
    • Contributor: Community Motion Picture Service, Inc - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1916
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    Transporting Internal Rev. stamps, U.S.P.O.
    Title from Biograph production log: Internal Revenue stamp from Treas. Dept | Transporting Internal Revenue stamps, U.S.P.O. | Transporting Internal Rev. stamps, United States Post Office     "The film shows a two-horse postal delivery wagon backed against a ramp, where two men are unloading the contents of the wagon into a delivery chute"--Early motion pictures.
    • Contributor: Weed, A. E. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1903
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    Kruger and Ward
    Title from Film & Television catalog card: Unidentified Peters No 3: Vaudeville acts     Opening title introduces "Kruger and Ward, the tall and short of it." The camera iris opens on a stage with a painted backdrop of a canyon and waterfall. Two clowns walk across the stage: a dwarf with a fake bald pate dressed in evening clothes and a top hat, and a tall, thin clown dressed as a woman. The dwarf follows the "woman" with...
    • Contributor: Spanuth, Hans A. - Afi/Peters (S.E.) Collection (Library of Congress) - Commonwealth Pictures Corporation - Kruger and Ward
    • Date: 1919
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    Buster's joke on Papa
    Title from MAVIS: Busters joke on Papa, 1903 Dec 21     The first scene shows Mama buying crabs from a vendor. The second shows Papa preparing for bed while Buster places crabs in the bed. Father retires and leaps from the bed in agony at the pain inflicted by the crabs. The last scene shows Mama placing Buster on a pillow on his chair to eat his breakfast.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Outcault, Richard Felton - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1903
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    The boxing cats (Prof. Welton's)
    Prof. Welton's boxing cats     Professor Welton presents an amusing fight between two trained cats wearing boxing gloves.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Welton, Henry - Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie) - Hendricks (Gordon) Collection (Library of Congress) - Heise, William
    • Date: 1894
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    Bucking broncho
    Variant title from Maguire & Baucus catalogue, April 1897: Bucking bronco | Variant title from Edison motion pictures 1890-1900: Bucking bronchos     "A fine exhibition of horsemanship by Lee Martin, a genuine cowboy. This particular broncho is an unusually wicked one. 40 feet"--Edison films catalog, no. 105.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie) - Heise, William
    • Date: 1894
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    Fun in camp "Showing a group of soldiers and Red Cross nurses being amused by a number of small children who are riding upon the backs of trick bears. A remarkably fine picture, with U.S. Infantry camp in the background. 30 feet"--Edison films catalog, no. 105.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1899
  • Film, Video
    The little train robbery "The opening scene shows the interior of the robbers' den. The walls are decorated with the portraits of notorious criminals and pictures illustrating the exploits of famous bandits. Some of the gang are lounging about, while others are reading novels and illustrated papers. Although of youthful appearance, each is dressed like a typical Western desperado. The "Bandit Queen," leading a blindfolded new recruit, now...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1905
  • Film, Video
    TR's sons' regiments during war, 1917-1918. [No. 1]
    Theodore Roosevelt's sons' regiments during war, 1917-1918     Soldiers walk in formation on a road accompanied by several mounted men. Because of the soldiers' heavy clothing, it must be winter. This group may be the 26th Infantry, Theodore and Archibald Roosevelt's regiment. Following sequence is of biplanes flying in formation; third sequence is shot at a hangar where men appear to be preparing a plane for flight. The second and third sequences...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - United States. Army. Signal Corps - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1918
  • Film, Video
    Judge Alton B. Parker & Mayor McClellan at Esopus
    Judge Alton B. Parker and Mayor McClellan at Esopus | Copyright title: Judge Alton B. Parker and guests | Judge Alton B. Parker & guests     From three camera positions, the Democratic presidential candidate, Judge Parker, bids farewell on the wharf at Esopus to Mayor McClellan and other important Democrats. Judge Parker was nominated at the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis, July 6, 1904.
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1904
  • Film, Video
    The making of an American This silent film follows an Italian immigrant who migrates to America but finds himself limited to working as a day laborer due to his lack of English proficiency. Unfortunately, he sustains an injury when he fails to comprehend a job safety warning. While recovering, he encounters a notice at the Post Office, written in multiple languages, urging immigrants to learn English at night school....
    • Contributor: Connecticut. State Board of Education - De Varny, E. J. - Connecticut State Council of Defense. Department of Americanization - Hedlund, Guy - Worcester Film Corporation
    • Date: 1920
  • Film, Video
    Funeral leaving the President's house and church at Canton, Ohio
    Title in Edison films catalog, no. 135: President McKinley's body leaving the house and church     "In this picture we show a most perfect view of the front entrance of the McKinley home in the background. The hearse which is to bear the President's body to its last resting place drives into view. President Roosevelt's Cabinet forms in line on either side of the walk. The Admirals of the Navy and the Generals of the Army form lines in their...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
  • Film, Video
    Imperial Japanese dance
    Title in Maguire & Gammon catalogue: Japanese dance     "A charming representation of The Mikado dance by three beautiful Japanese ladies in full costume. Very effective when colored. 45 feet"--Edison films catalog.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Sarashe Sisters - Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie) - Afi/Holt (H.L.) Collection (Library of Congress) - Heise, William
    • Date: 1894
  • Film, Video
    Admiral Cigarette
    We all smoke     In front of a large backdrop with the words "Admiral Cigarette" are four people in costume: Uncle Sam, a clergyman, an Indian, and a businessman. To their left is a very large Admiral Cigarette box, that breaks apart to reveals a girl, attired in a striking costume, smoking a cigarette. She goes to the men and hands each a cigarette. As she moves back...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Heise, William
    • Date: 1897
  • Film, Video
    Bobby Bumps starts a lodge
    Copyright title: Paramount-Bray Cartoon, no. 39, Bobby Bumps starts a lodge     Bobby Bumps plays a trick on his friend who wants to be initiated into his lodge. When his friend outsmarts him and saves his life, they both agree to be initiated into the lodge together.
    • Contributor: Afi/Atkinson (Dennis) Collection (Library of Congress) - Bray Studios - Hurd, Earl
    • Date: 1916
  • Film, Video
    Gordon Sisters boxing Two women on a stage approach from either side of the painted backdrop of a garden and engage in a boxing match. Both the boxing gloves and the hits exchanged between the women seem genuine. One woman wears a modest white dress with long sleeves and a skirt to mid-calf, dark stockings, and laced boots. The other woman--taller, thinner, and perhaps younger--sports a shorter,...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
  • Film, Video
    Buffalo dance Three Sioux Indians in full regalia perform a "buffalo dance", while two others use drums to supply a rhythm. The three dancers move around in a circle as they perform the various actions that are part of the dance. All three wear feathers in their headbands and two wear decorative tails.
    • Contributor: Hair Coat - Strong Talker - Parts His Hair - Last Horse - Pine - Heise, William - Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie) - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Hendricks (Gordon) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1894
  • Film, Video
    Sioux ghost dance
    Title from Edison films catalog: Ghost dance     "One of the most peculiar customs of the Sioux Tribe is here shown, the dancers being genuine Sioux Indians, in full war paint and war costumes. 40 feet"--Edison films catalog.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie) - Hendricks (Gordon) Collection (Library of Congress) - Heise, William
    • Date: 1894
  • Film, Video
    Toto Brothers
    Unidentified Peters No 3: Vaudeville acts     Opening title identifies this as a "balancing and iron jaw novelty act." Cuts to a long shot of a stage with a carpet and dark curtains as a backdrop, in front of which stand four chairs and a table. From stage left enters a man wearing dark leotards with a single-shouldered top, a waist belt, and dark high-top shoes with a white border. From...
    • Contributor: Toto Brothers - Spanuth, Hans A. - Afi/Peters (S.E.) Collection (Library of Congress) - Commonwealth Pictures Corporation
    • Date: 1919
  • Film, Video
    Keeping up with the Joneses. [Men's styles]
    Variant title from Library of Congress video collection, vol. 3, Origins of American animation: Men's styles | Variant title on M/B/RS preliminary catalog card: Keeping up with the Joneses     A domestic comedy about the McGinis family--husband Aloysius, wife Clarice, daughter Julie, and housemaid Belladonna. The simple story lines often parody society's concern with material goods as an indicator of social standing, but the series was not as narrowly focused as the title implies. The Joneses were the McGinis's neighbors, but were not depicted. They were referred to as objects of envy, with whom...
    • Contributor: Momand, Arthur R. - Mutual Film Corporation - Palmer, H. S. (Harry S.) - Afi/Zouary (Maurice) Collection (Library of Congress) - Gaumont Co
    • Date: 1915
  • Film, Video
    Roosevelt scenes [1917-1918] Views of TR at various public functions in support of the war effort: 1) TR stands with Brigadier General Michael J. Lenihan, fellow-officer in the Spanish-American War, and speaks to camera during an informal visit to Camp Mills, near Garden City, N.Y., on Sept. 2, 1917; 2) on the lawn of Sagamore Hill on Aug. 22, 1917, TR and members of the Belgian mission...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Pathé Exchange - International Film Service - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1917
  • Film, Video
    [Animal act with baboon, dog and donkey]
    Inventory title: Spanuth's vodvil - Zouary no. 149 | Zouary can no. 149     Opens on a closeup of a baboon "playing" a violin, then cuts to a medium shot of the same. The baboon wears a white short-sleeved shirt with a loose bow tie and tweed pants. Cuts to a closeup of the baboon in a circular mask or iris effect, without the violin but with a collar around his neck and a striped kitten that he...
    • Contributor: Spanuth, Hans A. - Commonwealth Pictures Corporation - Afi/Zouary (Maurice) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1919
  • Film, Video
    TR and Leonard Wood at the New York flower show, 1917
    Theodore Roosevelt and Leonard Wood at the New York flower show, 1917     Shots of TR and Leonard Wood on March 20, 1917, at the 5th Annual International Flower Show, Grand Central Palace in New York City. Medium-close view of TR and Wood standing together and talking, facing camera; TR, seated, poses for photographer, with Wood and an unidentified man standing behind him.
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - International Newsreel Corporation - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1917
  • Film, Video
    A romance of the rail "A series of railroad scenes of novel and amusing interest. It opens with a view of an imposing station showing a pretty girl, dressed in white, seated on a trunk awaiting the arrival of her train. A young man approaches, also dressed in white, and the two immediately fall in love. The Lackawanna Limited then rolls into the station and the Pullman porter helps...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S. - Murray, Marie
    • Date: 1903
  • Film, Video
    President McKinley's funeral cortege at Washington, D.C. "When photographing the funeral of President McKinley we secured an excellent position at the foot of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., having had the exclusive right for animated picture apparatus inside the lines. Our camera is focused looking up Pennsylvania Avenue and shows countless thousands of mourning people who line the streets along the way. As the funeral procession which accompanies the body of...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - McKinley, William - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
  • Film, Video
    McKinley and party
    Title in American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue [MI]: President McKinley's inspection of Camp Wikoff     "This picture has been very popular wherever it has been shown on the Biograph. To begin with, the film is unusually fine photographically, and the picture is taken from a point of view which shows the immense distances of Camp Wikoff with its multitude of tents in the background. The President, with Vice-President Hobart and Secretary of War Russell A. Alger, appear in an...
    • Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope Company
    • Date: 1898
  • Film, Video
    Keeping up with the Joneses. [Women's styles]
    Variant title from Library of Congress video collection, vol. 3, Origins of American animation: Women's styles | Variant title on M/B/RS preliminary catalog card: Keeping up with the Joneses     A domestic comedy about the McGinis family--husband Aloysius, wife Clarice, daughter Julie, and housemaid Belladonna. The simple story lines often parody society's concern with material goods as an indicator of social standing, but the series was not as narrowly focused as the title implies. The Joneses were the McGinis's neighbors, but were not depicted. They were referred to as objects of envy, with whom...
    • Contributor: Momand, Arthur R. - Mutual Film Corporation - Palmer, H. S. (Harry S.) - Afi/Zouary (Maurice) Collection (Library of Congress) - Gaumont Co
    • Date: 1915
  • Film, Video
    Jumbo, the trained elephant
    Inventory title: Spanuth's vodvil - Zouary no. 148 | Vaudeville de-luxe: four acts | Zouary can no148     Camera iris opens from black to a smiling man standing in front of an elephant, who is seated on her haunches on a stool with her front legs raised in the air. They are apparently on a stage with a painted backdrop of a forest. The man gives the elephant a treat, who then stands as the iris closes. Another iris effect opens on...
    • Contributor: Spanuth, Hans A. - U.S. Personal Film Company - Commonwealth Pictures Corporation - Afi/Zouary (Maurice) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1919
  • Film, Video
    Sandow
    Variant title from Edison motion pictures 1890-1900: Sandow | Copyright title: Souvenir strip of the Edison Kinetoscope, Sandow, the modern Hercules | Sandow, the modern Hercules     Strong-man Eugen Sandow stands against a black background with his arms up and hands behind his head. He strikes a variety of poses that demonstrate his upper body muscular development.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Heise, William - Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie) - Hendricks (Gordon) Collection (Library of Congress) - Sandow, Eugen
    • Date: 1894
  • Film, Video
    Robetta and Doretto, [no. 2]
    Title in Maguire & Baucus catalogue: Chinese laundry     "The pursuit of Hop Lee by an irate policeman"--Maguire & Baucus catalogue.
    • Contributor: Heise, William - Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie) - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Robetta - Hendricks (Gordon) Collection (Library of Congress) - Doretto, Phil
    • Date: 1894
  • Film, Video
    Dud leaves home
    Variant title from Library of Congress video collection, v. 3, Origins of American animation insert: Us fellers: "Dud leaves home" | Copyright title: Goldwyn-Bray Pictographs, no. 7009     Dud wants to buy his girlfriend Maime an ice cream cone so he breaks open his mother's bank, and splits their last dime in half in the process. His mother punishes him so he runs away. Dud is scared by imaginary ghosts in the dark, so he runs back home where he gets a spanking from his mother.
    • Contributor: Bray Pictures Corporation - Afi/Marshall (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Carlson, Wallace
    • Date: 1919
  • Film, Video
    [Chauncey Depew, Senator Perkins, and Governor Whitman of New...
    Pathe news     Scenes from the 16th Republican National Convention held in Chicago, June 7-10, 1916. Long shot of delegates outside the Congress Hotel. Medium shots, from left to right, of Mrs. Olive H. Whitman; Governor Charles S. Whitman of New York (1915-1918); Francis Hendricks, former New York State Senator (1886-1891); George W. Perkins, a leader in the Progressive movement (1912-1916); Chauncey M. Depew, former New York...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Pathé Exchange - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1916
  • Film, Video
    Spirit of '76 Dramatic recreation of the painting "The spirit of '76" by Archibald M. Willard. Opens on a stage with a painted backdrop of a battlefield and stage props of dirt, stones, and a broken wagon wheel. From stage left marches a trio of Revolutionary soldiers in a fife and drum corps. As in the painting, the center drummer is a tall, older, white-haired man in...
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Willard, Archibald M. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1905
  • Film, Video
    President McKinley's funeral cortege at Buffalo, N.Y. "This starts with the funeral procession leaving the Milburn house on Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, N.Y., headed by the mounted police of Buffalo, followed by Companies I and F, of the 14th U.S. Infantry, under personal command of Major General John R. Brooke. Following them come a company of the 73d Coast Artillery, which was then on duty at the Pan-American Exposition. The National Guard...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
  • Film, Video
    Congress of nations "A new and sensational film, which deals in a highly up-to-date manner with the international situation. A magician steps upon the stage carrying a hoop covered with white paper. Then in quick succession the flags of Germany, Russia, Ireland, England and China are brought forth and from each a soldier is produced corresponding with the flag of each nation. The magician adds a bit...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Albert E. (Albert Edward) - Vitagraph Company of America - Blackton, James Stuart
    • Date: 1900
  • Film, Video
    [Buster's dog to the rescue]
    Erroneous title in Early motion pictures catalog: Buster Brown series: Pranks of Buster Brown and his dog Tige | Erroneous title on paper roll: Busters revenge on the tramp | Title in Before the nickelodeon: Tige to the rescue | Title in Edison films catalog: Buster Brown series, scene IV     "Shows a kitchen and Bridget busy making crullers. Buster enters and begs Bridget to give him one. Bridget refuses and places all the crullers in a basket on the top pantry shelf. She warns Buster not to touch them, and leaves the room. Buster secures a stepladder and proceeds to climb to the top. As he is about to secure the coveted prize his...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Outcault, Richard Felton - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1904
  • Film, Video
    Karina
    Alternate title in AFI catalog: film beginnings, 1893-1910: Karina, specialty dancer     On a bare stage with a black background stands a woman with short, curly hair, wearing a dark dress with a sleeveless top, low-cut bodice, mid-calf length skirt, and layers of petticoats. Smiling at the camera, she seductively raises her skirt to reveal the multiple white petticoats, as well as her lacy, white bloomers to the knees, white tights, and a garter on her...
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Karina - Bonine, R. (Robert K.)
    • Date: 1898
  • Film, Video
    [Athlete with wand]
    Variant title from Edison motion pictures 1890-1900: Leçon de baton     One of a series of films using athletes from the local Newark Turnverein as subjects.
    • Contributor: National Turn Verein (Newark, N.J.) - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie) - Hendricks (Gordon) Collection (Library of Congress) - Heise, William
    • Date: 1894
  • Film, Video
    TR reviewing and speaking to 13th Regiment at Sagamore Hill, ...
    Theodore Roosevelt reviewing and speaking to 13th Regiment at Sagamore Hill, 1917     TR speaks to several unidentified people, including a man who looks like TR, on the porch at Sagamore Hill. There are two views of TR addressing soldiers assembled on the lawn of Sagamore Hill: the first segment shows TR's back as he speaks; the second is a long shot of TR, shot from the rear of the group of soldiers.
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Warner Bros. Pictures
    • Date: 1917
  • Film, Video
    Buster's joke on Papa
    Title from MAVIS: Busters joke on Papa, 1903 Oct 28     A vendor comes into the kitchen and sells crabs to the cook.The next scene is in a bedroom where Papa can be seen sitting in a rocker, reading a newspaper. He leaves the room to prepare for bed and Buster is seen placing crabs in his bed. Papa returns, gets into bed and right out again, with some crabs attached to his anatomy. The...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Outcault, Richard Felton - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1903
  • Film, Video
    The mob outside the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Expos... "The camera was positioned at such a height behind a large group of people outside an exhibit building that mainly hats are visible"--Early motion pictures. On Friday, September 6th, 1901, we had our cameras in position to photograph the President as he left the Temple of Music, but the deplorable assassination, of course, prevented our getting this picture. We did, however, secure an excellent...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
  • Film, Video
    What demoralized the barber shop
    Variant title: What demoralized the barbershop     Shows several men in a basement barbership who become excited by women walking past the window. The ankles and knees of the passersby are visible to the men below, causing pandemonium among the barbershop customers.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
  • Film, Video
    Pres. Roosevelt at the Dedication Ceremonies, St. Louis Expos...
    President Roosevelt at the Dedication Ceremonies, St. Louis Exposition | Variant title from the American Film Institute catalog: St. Louis Exposition exercises     President Theodore Roosevelt is on the speaker's platform. He rises and doffs his hat. A carriage passes in front of the platform. The President then appears briefly below the platform, possibly preparing to enter the carriage. President Roosevelt was in St. Louis to dedicate the Louisiana Purchase Exposition buildings and to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty. The...
    • Contributor: Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Selig Polyscope Company
    • Date: 1903
  • Film, Video
    Tom Tinker's pony patter
    Inventory title: Spanuth's vodvil - Zouary no. 149 | Zouary can no 149     Camera iris opens to six ponies with decorated harnesses and plumed halters, standing in the center of a stage with a painted backdrop of mountains. Cuts to two ponies on a seesaw, with a moustached man in a white uniform with dark piping and a white cap holding their leads. A second trainer in a dark suit can also be seen occasionally with the...
    • Contributor: Spanuth, Hans A. - Commonwealth Pictures Corporation - Afi/Zouary (Maurice) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1919
  • Film, Video
    Roosevelt, friend of the birds. [No. 1]
    Title in Theodore Roosevelt Association catalog: Roosevelt, friend of the birds [1] | Copyright catalog title: Theodore Roosevelt, friend of the birds     A narrative of TR's role in bird preservation which includes factual footage taken on his visit under the auspices of the National Audubon Society to bird sanctuary islands off the coast of Louisiana, June 1915. Mating habits and domestic life of snowy egrets and their plunder by hunters are dramatized. Scenes of egrets' nest and the hunt, kill, and plucking of birds serve as...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Job, Herbert Keightley - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Gentry, Caroline - Roosevelt Memorial Association. Film Library
    • Date: 1924
  • Film, Video
    TR's inauguration, 1905. [No. 1]
    Theodore Roosevelt's inauguration, 1905     Scenes of TR's second inauguration on March 4, 1905 in Washington, D.C.: long panning shots of crowds gathered at the Capitol; on a platform erected on the East Front of the Capitol, Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller administers the presidential oath of office to TR as Chief Clerk of the Supreme Court James H. McKenney holds the Bible; TR speaks to crowd. Views of...
    • Contributor: Lodge, Henry Cabot - Paramount Pictures Corporation - McKenney, James Hall - Fuller, Melville Weston - Dalzell, John - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Roosevelt Memorial Association - Spooner, John C. (John Coit) - Roosevelt, Theodore
    • Date: 1905
  • Film, Video
    The Prince of Wales visits TR's grave
    Prince of Wales visits Theodore Roosevelt's grave     In the summer of 1919, Edward, the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, embarked on a tour of the Dominions. After touring Canada for several months, the Prince decided to spend several days in the United States. His visit was the first visit of a Prince of Wales to the United States since that of his grandfather, Edward VII, fifty years earlier. On...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - International Film Service - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - International Newsreel Corporation
    • Date: 1919
  • Film, Video
    Buster and the dude
    Title in Early motion pictures catalog: Buster Brown series: Buster Brown and the dude | Title in Edison films catalog: Buster Brown series, scene II     "Shows a millinery store in the shopping district, and Mrs. Brown with a lady friend, admiring the hats displayed in the window. Buster and Tige are standing in the foreground. A howling swell, leading a small dog bedecked with ribbons, recognizes Mrs. Brown and stops to chat. Buster becomes impatient, tugs at his mamma's dress, and endeavors to hurry her; but the dude waves...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Outcault, Richard Felton - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1904
  • Film, Video
    Bowery waltz "Shows James T. Kelly and Dorothy Kent, of Waite's Comedy Company, in the famous Bowery dance. The dancers are dressed in costumes characteristic to the surroundings, and the dance as shown is an exact reproduction. The subject shows many humorous situations, is clear, sharp, and the figures show full life size. Suitable for coloring"--F.Z. Maguire catalogue.
    • Contributor: Kelley, James T. - Kent, Dorothy - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Heise, William
    • Date: 1897
  • Film, Video
    Dance, Franchonetti Sisters
    Variant title from American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue: Dance, Franchenette Sisters     Three young women with dark, curly hair stand on a stage with a black background and patterned carpet or tile underfoot. They wear tights, ballet shoes, and frilly dresses to the knee with multiple petticoats and ruffled drawers. They begin by raising their right legs up by their heads, and then perform a dance with a variety of kicks and leg movements, their hands...
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1903
  • Film, Video
    Band drill "From "Milk White Flag." Marching band with leader at the head"--Maguire & Baucus catalogue.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Hoyt, Charles H. (Charles Hale) - Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie) - Heise, William
    • Date: 1894
  • Film, Video
    Princess Ali
    Title in Maguire & Baucus catalogue: Egyptian dance     Princess Ali, of Barnum and Bailey's Circus, is filmed performing an Egyptian dance. As she dances, some musicians perform in the background to provide accompaniment.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Hendricks (Gordon) Collection (Library of Congress) - Heise, William
    • Date: 1895
  • Article
    The great train robbery H38748 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 1Dec1903; H38748. Justus D. Barnes (head bandit), G. M. Anderson (slain passenger, tenderfoot, and robber), Walter Cameron (sheriff). Camera, Edwin S. Porter, J.B. Smith, and others. Incomplete: material in the Edison Collection (viewing copy and viewing print, copy 2) is incomplete. Footages have not been confirmed. Differences in footages may be due to different methods of...
    • Contributor: Anderson, Gilbert M. - Porter, Edwin S. - Museum of Modern Art Collection (Library of Congress) - Edison Collection (Library of Congress) - Marble, Scott - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Barnes, J. D. (Justus D.) - Smith, James Blair
    • Date: 1903
  • Film, Video
    President McKinley's speech at the Pan-American Exposition
    Title from Edison films catalog: President's speech at the Pan-American Exposition     The film begins by showing the introductory speaker at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. The speaker introduces the incumbent president of the United States, William F. McKinley. The remainder of the film is a straight-on moving photograph of the president during his last public speech. "In this picture we present a wonderful and life-like likeness of President McKinley. He first walks upon the platform,...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
  • Film, Video
    Deliverance A fictionalized story of Helen Keller's life from eighteen months when a fever left her blind, deaf, and mute; through childhood as she learned to speak; maidenhood when she graduated from Radcliffe College; and adult life: meeting famous people, flying in an airplane, dancing, riding a horse, fixing her own hair, and inspiring World War I veterans to overcome their handicaps. Includes a dream...
    • Contributor: Hayes, Herbert - Keller, Phillips Brooks - Lincoln, Elmo - George Kleine (Firm) - Tolenski, Mary - Thomson, Polly - Schade, Betty - Judson, Harold - Tchkowski, Ivan - Belle, Tula ... Hayes, Herbert - Keller, Phillips Brooks - Lincoln, Elmo - George Kleine (Firm) - Tolenski, Mary - Thomson, Polly - Schade, Betty - Judson, Harold - Tchkowski, Ivan - Belle, Tula - Chapman, Edythe - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Mason, Ann - Jones, Parke - Helen Keller Film Corp - Ross, Etna - Keller, Kate Adams - Howarth, James - Sullivan, Annie - Braidwood, Flora - Stewart, Roy - Montana, Joy - Lyle, Edith - Keller, Helen - Mesreau, Charlotte - Lind, Sarah - Mellinino, Ardita - Miller, Francis Trevelyan - Warfield, James - De Serino, Josef - Platt, George Foster
    • Date: 1919
  • Film, Video
    Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Slavery days
    Slavery days     "On a plantation, about ten miles from the Ohio River, Kentucky: George Shelby, owner of the plantation and a large number of slaves, owing to business difficulties, is forced to sell some of his slaves to a trader named Haley. Among Shelby's slaves is a faithful old negro called Uncle Tom, to whom Haley takes a fancy, thinking he can get a large purse...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1903