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    Lathrop School, calisthenics
    Title in AFI catalog, film beginnings, 1893-1910: Lathrop School, calisthenics, Missouri Commission     A group of preadolescent boys and girls is standing in a row facing the camera position. In back of them is a wall on which is written "Kansas City, Mo." As the film progresses, the students go through a series of calisthenics, performing them in unison, and continue this throughout the film.
    • Contributor: Weed, A. E. - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Missouri. Commission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1904
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    Kindergarten ball game
    Title in AFI catalog, film beginnings, 1893-1910: Kindergarten ball game, Missouri Commission     "A row of approximately twenty-five children under the age of six can be seen facing the camera. They stand in front of a long blackboard with the words "Kansas City, Mo." written on it. As the film continues, the children bounce the balls they have in their hands, then form a circle and march around the bouncing balls"--Early motion pictures.
    • Contributor: Weed, A. E. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Missouri. Commission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1904
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    Hyde Park School room 2
    Title in AFI catalog, film beginnings, 1893-1910: Hyde Park School room 2, Missouri Commission     "Four rows of pre-adolescent children, both boys and girls, are standing in front of a blackboard on which the words "Kansas City, Missouri" can be seen. Each boy and girl has a pair of Indian clubs and for the extent of the film the group demonstrates in unison different exercises, using the clubs"--Early motion pictures.
    • Contributor: Weed, A. E. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Missouri. Commission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1904
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    Asia in America, St. Louis Exposition
    Title from Biograph photo catalog, v. 6: Parade of characters (Asia in America) St. Louis Exposition | Variant title from AFI catalog, film beginnings, 1893-1920: Mysterious Asia--St. Louis Exposition     "The film begins with a wide shot of an area crowded with people, some riding elephants, others marching in procession in front of a structure with the sign "Asia" on it. The people are wearing various costumes"--Early motion pictures.
    • Contributor: Weed, A. E. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1904
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    Central high school, gymnastic drill
    Title from Biograph production log: Central High, calisthenics | Title from AFI catalog: Central High, calisthenics, Missouri Commission     "The cameraman placed his equipment at the edge of a school yard where supervised gymnastics were being conducted by high school students. Male students can be seen doing the long and short "horse" exercises to the left of the camera position. In the center, a group of young girls are engaged in using the parallel bars and to the right of the camera, some...
    • Contributor: Weed, A. E. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Missouri. Commission to the Lousiana Purchase Exposition
    • Date: 1904
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    Basket ball, Missouri Valley College
    Basketball, Missouri Valley College     "The subject is a basketball game played between teams of girls. The film shows a section of a basketball court in the foreground, the backboard, and the basket. In the background is a three-story brick schoolbuilding"--Early motion pictures.
    • Contributor: Weed, A. E. - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1904
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    Princess Rajah dance
    Shooting title from Biograph production logs: Princess Rajah, dance with chair     "An Oriental dance which was one of the features of "Mysterious Asia," a Concession on the Pike, St. Louis Exposition. Length 72 feet"--Kleine Optical Co. catalog. Princess Rajah performs an "Oriental" or belly dance, and a balancing chair act in her teeth like that often found in folk performances in various cultures from Northern Africa to Greece. Shot outdoors in a street scene at...
    • Contributor: Weed, A. E. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Princess Rajah
    • Date: 1904
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    Parade of floats, St. Louis Exposition
    Variant title from the Internet movie database: Parade of decorated floats     One of the parades of floating craft held in the waterways of the St. Louis Exposition is shown in this film. The cameraman placed equipment on shore at a distance to include each of the competing craft. Photographed were twelve small craft, some motot-powered and some rowed, but all decorated with foliage and bunting and containing foreign representatives and dignitaries.
    • Contributor: Weed, A. E. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1904