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Film, VideoJohn and Mary Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available A furniture designer and an art gallery assistant meet in an upscale New York singles bar and go home together. The next day, they individually wander around the city, wondering what their night together might have meant-- if anything. Even though both carry over-the-limit baggage from unsuccessful earlier affairs, and both are stocked with enough hang-ups to fill volumes of psychological textbooks, there's still...- Contributor: Yates, Peter - Kadish, Ben - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Hoffman, Dustin - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc - Jones, Mervyn - Mortimer, John - Jones, Quincy - Farrow, Mia - Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
- Date: 2007
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Film, VideoWomen of the ghetto bathing
Title from Biograph production log: Ladies day at public baths | Title from American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalog: Ladies day at the public baths The subject is a group of women and girls in a public swimming pool wearing turn-of the-century bathing attire. Many women and girls are playing in the pool, while others climb out and jump into the pool. The water in the the pool appears to be about four feet deep and the pool is very crowded. According the Biograph picture catalogue, the scene takes...- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Marvin, Arthur W.
- Date: 1902
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Film, VideoBrooklyn Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
- Contributor: Wildgaze Films - Walters, Julie - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Item 7 (Film Production Company) - Bbc Films - Ingenious Film Partners (Firm) - Dwyer, Finola - Parallel Film Productions - British Film Institute - Raidió TeilifÃs Éireann ... Wildgaze Films - Walters, Julie - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Item 7 (Film Production Company) - Bbc Films - Ingenious Film Partners (Firm) - Dwyer, Finola - Parallel Film Productions - British Film Institute - Raidió TeilifÃs Éireann - Broadbent, Jim - Gleeson, Domhnall - Telefilm Canada - Finola Dwyer Productions - Hornby, Nick - TóibÃn, Colm - Brook, Michael - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc - Cohen, Emory - Québec (Province). Société De Développement Des Entreprises Culturelles - Posey, Amanda - Roberts, Jake - Bélanger, Yves - Bord Scannán Na Héireann - Fox Searchlight Pictures - Crowley, John - Ronan, Saoirse - Hanway (Firm)
- Date: 2016
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Film, VideoRMA flag service on the steps of New York Public Library, 1919
Roosevelt Memorial Association flag service on the steps of New York Public Library, 1919 On October 27, 1919 the Roosevelt memorial flag, which has been carried across New York State in TR's honor, is brought to rest at his grave in Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Views of Samuel Abbott, originator of the memorial flag idea, placing the flag on TR's grave. Sequence of two young girls and a boy placing flower bouquet and flag through fence...- Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Urban, Charles - Kinograms Publishing Corp - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1919
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Film, VideoTR's return to New York, 1910. [No. 1]
Theodore Roosevelt's return to New York, 1910 On June 18, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt returned to New York City after a fifteen-month tour abroad, having travelled through Africa and western Europe. An elaborate city celebration drawing a million people marked his homecoming. Aboard the ocean liner Kaiserin Auguste Victoria ex-President and Mrs. Roosevelt were met by a revenue cutter, the Manhattan, carrying the Roosevelt children. TR then went aboard a larger cutter,...- Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Braunstein, Nathan - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1910
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ArticleKing Kong Kong, a giant gorilla, falls in love with Ann Darrow, the leading lady in a film being made on the remote island where he is worshipped as a god. He carries her into the jungle, but she is rescued by the director, Carl Denham and their ship's captain, Jack Driscoll. Enraged, Kong goes on a rampage, killing islanders and destroying the village. He is...- Contributor: Wray, Fay - Cooper, Merian C. - Afi/RKO Collection (Library of Congress) - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Rose, Ruth - Cabot, Bruce - Armstrong, Robert - Creelman, James Ashmore
- Date: 1933
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Film, VideoTreloar and Miss Marshall, prize winners at the Physical Culture Show in Madison Square Garden
Alternate title per AFI catalog: film beginnings: Male and female prize winners at the Physical Culture Show, Madison Square Garden, Jan 2, 1904 Opens with a woman posing on a pedestal, dressed in a white body leotard with a sash tied at her hips. Marshall continues with various feminine poses, reminiscent of classic Greek statuary, to accentuate her figure. Film cuts to Treloar posed on the bare stage without a pedestal. He wears brief leopard-skin trunks or short tunic, wrist bands, and Roman-looking laced sandals. His poses...- Contributor: Treloar, Albert - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S. - Marshall, Beatrice
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoDarlene Flores interview conducted by Christine Lewis, 2016-08-24. Domestic worker Darlene Flores is interviewed by Christine Lewis. Like other interviews in this collection, their discussion focuses on the following themes: her biographical and background information; domestic workers' overview of their work inside their employer's homes and how they frame it as "real work"; how the domestic workforce negotiates and balances their work in other people's homes with the needs and demands of...- Contributor: Brooklyn Arts Council - Lewis, Christine Yvette - Flores, Darlene - Occupational Folklife Project
- Date: 2016-01-01
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Film, VideoShooting the Chutes, Luna Park, Coney Island
Title from Biograph production log: Shooting the Chutes, Luna Park "The camera was positioned to view the Shoot-the-Chutes concession from the best location. A special added attraction for the entertainment of the spectators is a man in a swimming suit who rides down the Shoot-the-Chutes on one ski"--Early motion pictures.- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903
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Film, VideoJoyce Romain interview conducted by Christine Lewis and Patricia Francois, 2016-03-28. Interviewer Patricia Francois sits down with interviewee Joyce Romain. Romain discusses working as a nanny; and her specialty: working as a doula for women with post-partum depression. She talks about her experience working as a nanny; tells a story about how one of her employers moved to Seattle and how she continued to have a relationship with that family; and discusses the differences between...- Contributor: Brooklyn Arts Council - Romain, Joyce - Occupational Folklife Project - Lewis, Christine Yvette
- Date: 2016-01-01
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Film, VideoAdmiral Dewey receiving the Washington and New York committees
Variant title: Reception committee aboard the "Olympia" | Variant title: Committee of Arrangements' visit to Admiral Dewey "Showing Committee of Arrangements' visit to the Admiral on board the U.S. Cruiser Olympia. 100 feet"--Edison films catalog no. 94. One of 20 films advertised in Edison films catalog no. 94, under the category "Dewey Doings." From the catalog: We equipped eight parties on the occasion of Admiral Dewey's arrival in New York Harbor, Wednesday, September 27th, 1899, and secured the following excellent moving...- Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Brook Foundation Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
- Date: 1899
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Film, Video104th Street curve, New York, elevated railway
Title in Edison films catalog: 104th St. curve, New York elevated railway | Variant title from Edison motion pictures, 1890-1900: Panoramic view, elevated R.R., N.Y., 104th St. curve "Taken from the front platform of a special train run backward over the celebrated S curve. Not only are the passing trains and crowded platforms of great interest, but the view of up-town New York is an excellent one, showing acre upon acre of roofs, towers, steeples and towering apartment houses. As the "special" slows up at 92nd Street, a Harlem express dashes by,...- Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
- Date: 1899
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Film, VideoMove on Filmed in New York's Lower East Side, the scene is a street where several pushcart vendors have gathered to sell their goods. In the foreground are fruit and vegetable carts. An elevated railroad track crosses over the street in the background. As the film progresses, two policemen can be seen heading up the street toward the camera and ordering all of the vendors to...- Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Abadie, Alfred C. (Alfred Camille)
- Date: 1903-01-01
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Film, VideoA perilous proceeding The film follows a group of approximately ten men who are suspended on the cable of a large crane atop a building under construction. As the men are lifted over the site and gradually lowered, they wave to the camera.- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Congdon, James - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1902-01-01
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Film, VideoMarie-Ketlaine Antoine interview conducted by Ninaj Raoul, 2016-08-30. Interview with Marie-Ketlaine Antoine by Ninaj Raoul of Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees. Like other interviews in this project, their discussion focuses on the following themes: her biographical and background information; domestic workers' overview of their work inside their employer's homes and how they frame it as "real work"; how the domestic workforce negotiates and balances their work in other people's homes with the...- Contributor: Brooklyn Arts Council - Raoul, Ninaj - Occupational Folklife Project - Antoine, Marie-Ketlaine
- Date: 2016-01-01
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ArticleThe band wagon Tony Hunter is a movie star whose career is in a downturn. Looking for a boost, Tony decides to try starring in a Broadway musical. His friends Lester and Lily Marton have written a show they feel would be just right for Tony, and the three team up with Jeffrey Cordova, a self-styled "genius" director, who gets the idea to turn the play into...- Contributor: Loew's Incorporated - Buchanan, Jack - Minnelli, Vincente - Fabray, Nanette - Green, Adolph - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Mgm/Ua Home Video (Firm) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Freed, Arthur - Mitchell, James - Levant, Oscar - Charisse, Cyd - Gist, Robert - Comden, Betty - Astaire, Fred
- Date: 1987
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Film, VideoElevated railroad, New York
Around the big curves | Elevated R.R. 110 St. curve, New York City | Around the big curves on the Manhattan Elevated R.R. Taken from the front end of a locomotive following an express train at high speed around the high curves of the Ninth Avenue Elevated, from the 104th to 116th Street station. This section, with its reverse curve, is known as "The Big Loop", and is the highest (at over 100 feet) and most dangerous section on the New York Elevated. During the trip, Grant's...- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope Company
- Date: 1903-01-01
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Film, VideoParade of "exempt" firemen The film shows a large group of people watching the approach of a color guard followed by a number of elderly marching firemen [Frame: 1734] pulling antique fire equipment [2486]. In the background is the white marble Washington Arch [0116], designed by Stanford White and completed in 1895 to commemorate the first inauguration of George Washington.- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Armitage, F. S. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903-01-01
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Film, VideoRosemarie Francis-Primo interview conducted by Christine Lewis, 2016-08-29. Interview of Rosemarie ("Kalifa") Francis-Primo by Christine Lewis. Like other interviews in the this project, their discussion focuses on the following themes: her biographical and background information; domestic workers' overview of their work inside their employer's homes and how they frame it as "real work"; how the domestic workforce negotiates and balances their work in other people's homes with the needs and demands of...- Contributor: Brooklyn Arts Council - Lewis, Christine Yvette - Occupational Folklife Project - Francis-Primo, Rosemarie
- Date: 2016-01-01
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Film, VideoMadison Square, New York "Madison Square, New York is shown just after the turn of the century. There is normal traffic consisting of streetcars and horse-drawn vehicles"--Early motion pictures.- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Bonine, R. (Robert K.)
- Date: 1902
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Film, VideoBeginning of a skyscraper
Starting a skyscraper The scene is an excavation site in New York City. A large group of workmen with picks and shovels are digging. Carts drawn by pairs of horses can be seen emerging from the smoke in the background. "Taken in the immense excavation for the foundation of the new Macy Building at the corner of Broadway and 34th Street, New York. An excellent study of...- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Bonine, R. (Robert K.)
- Date: 1902-01-01
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Film, VideoNew York City "ghetto" fish market "A fine panoramic view of this busy market on a Friday morning. Immense throngs of people are seen passing along the stands and making their selections of fish. A great character study. 165 feet"--Edison films catalog.- Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, James Blair
- Date: 1903-01-01
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Film, VideoParade of horses on Speedway
Speedway parade | Parade on the Speedway The film is of the third annual parade of the Road Drivers Association of New York. A procession of fine horses and fashionable carriages move along the Harlem River Speedway, in the Highbridge section of northern Manhattan. The view is from the Manhattan side of the river looking north. On the right is the Harlem River and on the opposite bank, the Bronx. Prominent...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Bonine, R. (Robert K.)
- Date: 1902-01-01
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Film, VideoNew York City dumping wharf The film shows a wharf where a barge is being loaded with trash from two-wheeled, horse-drawn wagons. The trash is dumped off the edge of the pier onto the barge, where men with shovels are spreading the piles of debris. The camera pans left to the next barge, where four-wheeled carts are shown dumping excavation rubble. Probably filmed on the East River, this is...- Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, James Blair
- Date: 1903-01-01
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Film, VideoFireboat "New Yorker" answering an alarm "Firemen board the fireboat New Yorker docked at the Battery, New York City; pull anchor; shove off; and proceed out into the harbor"--George Kleine Collection...catalog.- Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, James Blair
- Date: 1903