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    The pranks of Buster Brown and his dog Tige
    Buster Brown series Catalog Record Only
    H43074 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 9Mar1904; H43074. Variant series title from Edison films catalog. This paper pos (Box 0579A) was originally designated LC 2298, copy 1, however it contains the short, Buster and Tige puts a baloon vender out of business [sic], which does not appear on the roll formerly designated LC 2298, copy 2 (now known as Buster Brown series....
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Outcault, Richard Felton - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1904
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    Buster Brown series. [No. 2] Catalog Record Only H43074 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 9Mar1904; H43074. Series title from Edison films catalog. This paper pos was originally designated LC 2298, copy 2, however it does not contain the short, Buster and Tige put a balloon vendor out of business, which does appear on the roll formerly designated LC 2298, copy 1 (now known asThe pranks of Buster Brown and his...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Outcault, Richard Felton - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1904
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    [Steam shovel at work] Catalog Record Only A steam shovel in an excavation heaps dirt into a box car, picks up some machinery, and moves dirt to a large embankment. Includes both top and side views of the machinery. Some workmen are pictured, plus what looks like a dynamite-induced explosion which breaks down one side of the excavation. No titles.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1900
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    Admiral Dewey on the deck of flagship, 1899. [No. 2] Catalog Record Only When Admiral George Dewey enters New York Bay on Sept. 27, 1899, he receives many visitors who wish to formally welcome him to New York and to complete arrangements for his reception in New York and in Washington, D.C. Admiral Dewey and three of his officers walk on the deck of the Olympia, Dewey's flagship, which is anchored at Tompkinsville, Staten Island; a group...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1899
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    Pack mules with ammunition on the Santiago Trail, Cuba
    Variant title: Pack mules on the trail, Cuba | Variant title from Roosevelt Memorial Association: Pack mules on trail, 1898 | Variant title from Edison motion pictures, 1890-1900: Pack mules with ammunition on the Santiago
    "A great pack train approaches rapidly, following the gray bell-mule. Cowboys dash to and fro, keeping them bunched. Clouds of dust arise as they pass"--Edison films catalog. About 12,000 mules were taken to Cuba and used primarily for transporting immediate reserves of small-arms ammunition during the Spanish-American War. A group of mules loaded with boxes of ammunition is being driven along a trail, probably...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Paley, William Daly - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1898
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    President McKinley reviewing the troops at the Pan-American Exposition
    Roosevelt Memorial Association title: President McKinley reviewing troops at Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901
    "The President is seen on the reviewing stand at the Stadium, escorted by President Milburn, of the Pan-American Exposition, Secretary Cortelyou, and other noted persons. He removes his silk hat as the troops march by and politely bows to the great audience as they cheer and encore. President McKinley and party form the left foreground of our picture while the troops march by in...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Roosevelt Memorial Association - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Paramount Pictures Corporation - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
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    Jamestown Exposition international naval review, Hampton Roads, Va. Catalog Record Only Footage of the International naval review of 1907 during the 300th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, showing some of the decorated battleships (including the U.S. Indiana), cruisers, torpedo boats, destroyers, and monitors from the United States and several other nations, as they pass in review before President Theodore Roosevelt (not pictured) on his yacht, the Mayflower, in the Hampton Roads Harbor. Probably filmed...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1907
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    [Farm and mine workers] Catalog Record Only Miscellaneous footage, some obviously staged, perhaps for an unidentified production. Includes a man struggling over dirt toward a tiny stream, but collapsing before he reaches the water; mountainous desert landscapes; a man feeding chickens in a farmyard; an Indian girl holding a baby; a man using a pail to dip water from a stream; four horses and a flat bed wagon pulling a heavy...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1910
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    Crystals and their beauties Catalog Record Only Shows the formation of various types of crystals made from table salt, tin, silver, acetamide, and other materials. The resulting crystals resemble fireworks, skyrockets, maps of city streets, tree branches, bayonets, and stars.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - K.E.S.E. (Firm) - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1917
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    The voice of the violin Herbert McLean, Sr. has two adult sons, Herbert Jr., and Jack. He is also the guardian of a young woman, Marjorie. Jack is good and generous, but Herbert Sr. favors Herbert Jr. Jack and Marjorie share a love of music. She is a pianist and he is a violinist. They are playing a duet when Herbert Jr. enters the house. He spends a few...
    • Contributor: Edison Collection (Library of Congress) - Turbett, Ben - King, Carleton S. - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Brower, Robert - O'Malley, Pat - Fulton, Helen
    • Date: 1915
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    Admiral Dewey on flagship, 1899 Catalog Record Only Prior to the water and land parades on Sept. 29 and 30, 1899, part of New York City's enthusiastic welcome to Admiral George Dewey, the Admiral remains on board his flagship, the Olympia, anchored at Tompkinsville, Staten Island. Admiral Dewey, the heavy man with a white mustache, and three of his officers await the arrival of visitors; a group of dignitaries, including several naval...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Elmendorf, Dwight L. (Dwight Lathrop)
    • Date: 1899
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    [Toronto, Canada--scenes in and about] Catalog Record Only Harbor scenes taken from a moving boat around Toronto. Shows water traffic, the sidewheelers Corona and Chippewa, a ferry with Toronto Ferry Co. printed on its side, construction, railroad yards, the skyline, and the Yonge Street wharf. No titles.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Kleine (George) Collection
    • Date: 1907
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    Black Diamond Express. No. 1
    Lehigh Valley Express "Black Diamond" Catalog Record Only
    Train is first seen rounding a curve nearly a mile away. Approaches at the rate of 70 miles an hour, blowing a warning whistle to a gang of track repairers.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Heise, William - Hendricks (Gordon) Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1896
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    Putting the bee in Herbert Catalog Record Only A twenty-dollar-a-week New York City bank clerk, goaded by his small-town, ambitious wife, becomes the assistant to the bank president at ten thousand dollars a year by proving, with a series of cleverly planned publicity stunts based on his wife's reminiscences of small-town methods, that he possesses enterprise and leadership.
    • Contributor: Wadsworth, William - D'art, E. Clement - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Henry, George - Fleming, Ethel - George Kleine (Firm) - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Stevens, Jessie - Weston, George - France, Floyd - Benham, Harry
    • Date: 1917
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    The Customary two weeks Catalog Record Only The young advertising manager for the Eclipse Tool Company tries to have the company owner reinstate an old man whom the ad manager has seen his supervisor fire. The supervisor then fires the ad man who goes west to make his way in a rival company and achieves such success that he is rehired at Eclipse as general manager and also wins the heart...
    • Contributor: Dennis, Arthur - D'art, E. Clement - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Harrison, Saul - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Tilden, Freeman - Ellis, Robert - K.E.S.E. (Firm) - Evans, Herbert - Adams, Kathryn - Burke, Joseph
    • Date: 1917
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    The Heart of a waif Catalog Record Only A melodrama in which a middle-aged childless farm couple adopt a little girl named Jane from the orphan asylum and cause her to be unhappy by giving her much more hard work to do in her new home than at the asylum, but they eventually become affectionate after Jane prevents a robbery from occurring in their house.
    • Contributor: Tomlinson, Thomas - Luce, Clare Boothe - Sturgeon, John - Reed, Julian - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Seay, Charles M. (Charles Morgan) - Bechtel, William - Chalfin, William - Neill, Richard R. - Thomas A. Edison, Inc
    • Date: 1915
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    A Sprig of shamrock. Catalog Record Only Two young sweethearts in Ireland marry, pledging to love each other as long as the shamrock is green. They move to New York, where the wife receives a letter saying that her mother is very ill, and she decides to return home for a visit. While there, she has a baby boy, and when she realizes after some time that her mother is all...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Hulette, Gladys - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Erskine, Wallace - Johnson, Millard - O'Malley, Pat - Learn, Bessie - Beaumont, Harry
    • Date: 1915
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    Gallegher : a newspaper story
    Newspaper story Catalog Record Only
    A newspaper office boy whose ambition is to be a great detective uses the clue of a missing index finger to track down the guilty suspect in a sensational murder case and manages to get the story of the murderer's arrest back to his city editor in time to scoop all of the other papers and win a $5000 reward.
    • Contributor: Ely, E. A. - Wadsworth, William - Willard, Jack - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Turbett, Ben - Stearn, Lou - Davis, Richard Harding - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - K.E.S.E. (Firm) - Clark, Andy
    • Date: 1917
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    For professional services Catalog Record Only One day four college boys see Alice Morse, M.D. name plate upon the door and look upon the idea of a woman doctor as a joke. Therefore, they decide to play a trick on the female doctor. In the end, the joke is really on them.
    • Contributor: Williams, Cora - Wadsworth, William - King, H. M. - Olge, Charles - Afi/Hollywood Museum Collection (Library of Congress) - Learn, Bessie - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Public Archives of Canada/Dawson City Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1914
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    Cartoons on the beach Catalog Record Only Mixes live action and animation. Billy and his sweetheart, Eleanor, go to the beach, sit down at an outdoor table with several friends, and open a book of cartoons, which become animated as the young people read. The four amusing animated sequences--The Hicks in Nightmareland, Bunkum's boarding house, The Kelly Kid's bathing adventure, and A sand microbe flirtation--form a framing device for a little...
    • Contributor: Leslie, Gladys - General Film Company - Moser, Frank - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Barré, Raoul - Mussett, Charles - Barré Studio (Firm) - La Cava, Gregory - Brown, Maxine - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Forster, O. W. (Oscar W.)
    • Date: 1915
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    Indians and cow-boys
    Indians and cowboys | Original French title: Indiens et cow-boys | Indiens et cow-boys
    A captured Indian marauder is beaten by a gang of cowboys. Seeking vengeance, the Indians attack a stagecoach and abduct its passengers. The cowboys ride in pursuit and successfully rescue the captives.
    • Contributor: Afi/Tayler (Dorothy M.) Collection (Library of Congress) - S. Lubin (Firm : Philadelphia, Pa.) - Pathé Frères (France) - Pathé Frères (U.S.) - George Kleine (Firm) - Thomas A. Edison, Inc
    • Date: 1904-01-01
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    The mermaid's ballet Catalog Record Only "A beautiful and mystifying picture. A ballet dancer is seen performing her graceful dance upon the surface of a lake. There is a slight ripple upon the water, producing beautiful effects, and the audience is left wondering how the dancer stays on the surface of the water and why she does not sink"--Edison films catalog.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Afi/Holt (H.L.) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1902
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    The Joke they played on Bumptious Catalog Record Only Mr. Bumptious (John R. Cumpson) and his friends stop at their club after having dinner in town. For a practical joke, his friends get the waiter to mix ginger ale cocktails for Mr. Bumptious, telling him that they are real. Mr. Bumptious becomes convinced that he is wildly drunk and is making a fool of himself. As he becomes more distressed, the jokers become...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Theiss, John - Public Archives of Canada/Dawson City Collection (Library of Congress) - Cumpson, John R.
    • Date: 1910
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    The Office boy's birthday Catalog Record Only Lionel works in an office with four pretty stenographers, Kitty, Flo, Marjory and Alice. The ladies are fond of Lionel, but lose patience with his boyish pranks and clumsiness. His birthday is such a bad day for Lionel that the girls decide not to give him the watch they've bought for him. Lionel has his friend, Giccomo burst into the office and frighten the...
    • Contributor: Eytinge, Harry - Boss, Yale - Seay, Charles M. (Charles Morgan) - McCoy, Gertrude - Macleod, Elsie - Public Archives of Canada/Dawson City Collection (Library of Congress) - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Housman, Arthur
    • Date: 1913
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    The Lake Geneva Camp of the Y.M.C.A., Lake Geneva, Wisconsin Catalog Record Only A scenic film in which a visit is paid to a camp for young men and boys. The camp is located on the shores of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin and a variety of activities are demonstrated, including gymnastic dancing, field athletics, diving and water polo.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Public Archives of Canada/Dawson City Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1913