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    Coaches arriving at Mammoth Hot Springs
    Title in Edison films catalog no. 105: Arrival of Yellowstone Park coaching party
    "The following pictures were taken by our artists at various points on the Northern Pacific Railway...The scene is the broad piazza of the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, and shows the arrival of tourists. Up dashes a spanking team of six, seemingly as fresh and spirited as when they started. Friends who are waiting on the piazza rush to greet the new arrivals and help...
    • Contributor: Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1899
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    Bombardment of Taku Forts, by the Allied fleets "The scene opens by showing the battleships maneuvering for a position. They finally draw up in line of battle and commence firing on the shore batteries. Immense volumes of smoke arise from the fleet and from the distant shore. Shots are seen to fall thickly among the vessels and immense bodies of water are thrown up by the explosion of mines. A very exciting...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1900
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    Boat race
    Title from Biograph production log: U. S. N. Dept., boat race--"Indiana" | Variant title from Biograph production log: Boat race "Indiana"
    Two standard U.S. Navy eight-oar pulling boats, each commanded by a coxswain at the steering position in the stern, are seen abeam of one another. At a signal, both pulling boats begin moving and it can be seen that the camera was positioned on a vessel following the two competing pulling boats. The camera stays with the two boats until their destination is disclosed...
    • Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - McCutcheon, Wallace - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1904
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    S.S. "Coptic" in the harbor
    Steamship "Coptic" in the harbor
    From F.Z. Maguire catalogue: Shows the vessel away from the dock and slowly turning. The vessel is seen to good advantage, the four masts, smokestack and hull being faithfully reproduced. Clouds of smoke pour out of the funnel, and volumes of steam out of the exhaust pipe. In the foreground is a dense crowd, among which are numerous Chinamen. Clear and sharp with figures...
    • Contributor: Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1897
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    The burning stable "Shows a barn actually in flames, from which four horses and a burning wagon are rescued by firemen and stable hands. The scene is exciting, full of action from beginning to end, and all its details are clearly and sharply defined. Thick volumes of smoke pouring from the doors and windows of the stable add greatly to the realistic effect"--Maguire & Baucus catalogue.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Heise, William - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1896
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    TR, Mayor Mitchel, Governor Charles Whitman of New York, and ...
    Theodore Roosevelt, Mayor Mitchel, Governor Charles Whitman of New York, and Myron Herrick, 1917
    Close-up view of New York Governor Charles S. Whitman (1915-1918), Myron T. Herrick, formerly governor of Ohio and United States ambassador to France, and New York City Mayor John P. Mitchel (1914-1917) reviewing a parade of New York National Guardsmen from the balcony of the Union League Club in New York City, Aug. 30, 1917. TR steps forward between Herrick and Mitchel and tips...
    • Contributor: Mitchel, John Purroy - Herrick, Myron T. (Myron Timothy) - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Charles S.
    • Date: 1917
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    Reliance" vs. "Shamrock III", Aug. 20
    Reliance" versus "Shamrock III", Aug. 20
    "The camera was approximately 550 yards from the race course track line. The first action is the bowsprit of the leading contender entering the picture. The remainder of the film includes a full photograph of the leading yacht as well as most of the trailing yacht. Both of the vessels are sailing close-hauled and full rigged. The Reliance and Shamrock III were contenders for...
    • Contributor: Weed, A. E. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1903
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    Leonard-Cushing fight "An actual six-round contest between Mike Leonard, commonly called the "Beau Brummel" of pugilism, and Jack Cushing. Full of hard fighting, clever hits, punches, leads, dodges, body blows and some slugging. Sold by rounds. Each round contains 150 feet"--Edison films catalog, no. 105.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Kinetoscope Exhibition Company - Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie) - Heise, William
    • Date: 1894
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    [Vitagraph paper print fragments. No. 5] Copyright: each fragment registered separately; copyright information given in content notes. Running time of 19 minutes for digital file includes added titles. All acetate material copied from bromide photographic paper prints deposited as motion picture copyright registrations during 1908. More detailed information on the paper prints in this collection may be found in the Motion Picture and TV Reading Room at the Library of...
    • Contributor: Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Vitagraph Company of America
    • Date: 1908
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    A glimpse of the San Diego Exposition
    Working title from Mack Sennett's fun factory: Educational of San Diego Exposition
    The film begins from a single-camera position high above the Exposition grounds. The camera begins to pan from left to right, following the horizon. The picture includes all of the spires and buildings of the fair. Then the camera is moved to the Exposition midway. Includes shots of the exposition buildings in Balboa Park, a bridge that cost a quarter of a million dollars...
    • Contributor: Sennett, Mack - Keystone Film Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1915
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    Building a harbor at San Pedro
    Title in Edison films catalog: Building a harbor at San Pedro, California
    "This picture was secured from a launch furnished by Mr. Eager, President of the California Construction Co., who are fulfilling this $5,000,000 contract. Here is seen the largest derrick in the world at work, showing the huge arm straining and swaying. The spray effects are very fine, as the huge rocks strike the water, sending beautiful masses of foam hundreds of feet in the...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
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    Pawtucket Fire Department
    Title from Biograph production log: Run of Pawtucket Fire Dept
    "A good film, photographed from a single-camera position, of the Fire Department of the city of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and its equipment. For the time, the apparatus was ultramodern"--Early motion pictures.
    • Contributor: Armitage, F. S. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1903
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    71st Regiment, Camp Wyckoff
    Seventy-first Regiment, Camp Wyckoff | Title in American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue: 71st Regiment, N.G.S.N.Y., at Camp Wikoff | Title in Biograph bulletin: Seventy-first Regiment, N.G., S.N.Y. | Title in Biograph photo catalog, v. 2: Seventy-first Regiment, N.Y.V. at Camp Wikoff
    "Of the thousand and more men who left New York for the Cuban Campaign, scarcely three hundred were able to shoulder their rifles to march before the Biograph camera at Camp Wikoff. The picture shows many of the companies reduced to seven or eight men, and the whole regiment, rank and file is in a sad condition. The picture is remarkably fine in every...
    • Contributor: Armitage, F. S. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - American Mutoscope Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1898
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    U.S. cavalry supplies unloading at Tampa, Florida
    United States cavalry supplies unloading at Tampa, Florida | Title from the Internet movie database: U.S. Cavalry unloading ambulance supplies
    "Here is a freight train of thirty cars loaded with baggage and ambulance supplies for the 9th U.S. Cavalry. In the foreground a score of troopers are pulling, lifting and hauling an ambulance from a flat car. It slides down the inclined planks with a sudden rush that makes the men "hustle" to keep it from falling off. Drill engine on the next track...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Paley, William Daly
    • Date: 1898
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    Duel scene, "By right of sword"
    By right of sword | Title in Biograph bulletins 1896-1908: Duel scene from "By right of sword"
    Opens on a stage with a painted backdrop of a lake surrounded by forest. A bearded man wrapped in a dark cloak and wearing a dark fur shako--Major Devinsky--stands stage left. Behind him, a group of three soldiers move about impatiently, watching for someone offstage. From stage right enters the story's main character, Hamylton Tregethner, masquerading as infantryman Alexis Petrovitch. The duelers remove their...
    • Contributor: Weed, A. E. - Marchmont, Arthur W. - Stuart, Ralph - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1904
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    Statue of Liberty A three-quarter front view of the Statue of Liberty. The statue was erected twelve years earlier, in 1886.
    • Contributor: American Vitagraph Company - Smith, Albert E. (Albert Edward) - Blackton, James Stuart - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1898-01-01
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    Over route of Roosevelt parade in an automobile This film is a review by automobile of the arrival parade route of President Theodore Roosevelt, on Tuesday, May 12, 1903. The film was shot from about 2:10 pm to 2:15 pm (shortly before the 3 pm parade) and shows street and building decorations and excited crowds. The portion of the route shown is in the heart of the downtown business district. The later...
    • Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Miles, Herbert J.
    • Date: 1903
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    Hotel Vendome, San Jose, Cal
    Vendome Hotel, San Jose, California
    "The world famous hotel, with crowded piazzas, which forms the background, is one of the best in the State of Califonia and is the principal stop for tourists en route to the famous Lick Observatory. The picture shows two four-horse coaches, two teams and two single horse carriages, loaded with tourists under the guidance of Mr. Ross, proprietor of the Mt. Hamilton Transportation Co.,...
    • Contributor: Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1897
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    Life rescue at Long Branch
    Title from Edison films catalog, no. 288: Life rescue scene, Atlantic City, N. J. | Title from Musser's Emergence of cinema: Life rescue at Atlantic City
    "Shows a number of bathers enjoying a dip in the surf. A young lady is suddenly seized with cramps, throws up her hands, and goes down for the second time. A life boat approaches and one of the life guards seizes her by the hair as she sinks for the last time. She is pulled into the boat and rowed ashore. The picture then...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
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    Kiss me Opens on a stage set of a street with a sidewalk and a high fence completely covered with female burlesque troupe posters. The four posters visible advertise actual contemporary burlesquers Fred Irwin's Majestics, Rose Sydell (of her London Belles), Phil Sheridan's New City Sports (with the tag line "Ain't we three birds"), and the Rentz-Santley Co. One of the center posters--that for Rose Sydell--features...
    • Contributor: Weed, A. E. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1904
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    The Inner Circle A lonely widower is told to bomb Senor Cataldo's house by the Inner Circle, a secret society of which he is a reluctant member. Sr. Cataldo's offence is that he has gone to the police with an extortion note he received from the Inner Circle. While the widower is being given his instructions, his little girl wanders away from her caretaker and is struck...
    • Contributor: Bitzer, G. W. - General Film Company - Paget, Alfred - Griffith, D. W. (David Wark) - Biograph Company - Robinson, Spike - Pickford (Mary) Collection (Library of Congress) - Pickford, Jack - Lañoe, J. J. (Joseph Jiquel) - Pickford, Mary ... Bitzer, G. W. - General Film Company - Paget, Alfred - Griffith, D. W. (David Wark) - Biograph Company - Robinson, Spike - Pickford (Mary) Collection (Library of Congress) - Pickford, Jack - Lañoe, J. J. (Joseph Jiquel) - Pickford, Mary - Toncray, Kate - Gorman, Charles - Cabanne, Christy - Lestina, Adolphe - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Harron, Robert - Hennessy, George - Mailes, Charles H. (Charles Hill) - Evans, Frank
    • Date: 1912
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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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    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
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    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
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    Drill by Providence police
    Title from Early motion pictures: Drill by the Providence Police
    "In the center of a town square, a company of uniformed policemen equipped with nightsticks is standing at attention. The policemen execute several close-order drill maneuvers similar to those of any army infantry company. They end as they began, company front"--Early motion pictures.
    • Contributor: Armitage, F. S. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1903
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    Native Daughters "Taken at San Francisco, Cal., at the Golden Jubilee. In the foreground is shown an immense concourse of people, including ladies and children, while the background is formed by very high buildings, from the windows of which numerous flags are waving. The film opens showing the native daughters mounted on horses, passing through the immense throngs of on-lookers. They are dressed in white costumes,...
    • Contributor: Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1898
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    The tramp's unexpected skate "Here is a picture that appeals to both young and old. A weary looking tramp lies asleep under the wall of a picturesque park. Two mischievous boys enter on roller skates. They take a cautious view of Weary Willie, when a bright idea enters their heads. They hold a short conference and then removing their skates, they proceed to strap them firmly to the...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
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    Cattle leaving the corral Taken at Hacienda de Soledad, Sabinas Mexico, and shows a herd of 900 cattle being driven out of the corral, after having been branded. This immense herd, driven by Mexican cowboys, comes through the gates head-on to the audience. The cattle with their large horns, as they crowd together and pus rapidly out through the gates, make an interesting picture"--Edison films, March 15, 1898.
    • Contributor: Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1898
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    Star Theatre
    Star Theater
    Using time-lapse photography, the film shows the demolition of the famous Star Theatre. Judging from the various exposures, the work must have gone on for a period of approximately thirty days. The theater opened in 1861 as "Wallack's Theatre," and was re-christened the "Star" in 1883. It was well known for it's excellent productions, and a number of celebrated actors and actresses worked there,...
    • Contributor: Armitage, F. S. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1902
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    Capture of Boer battery by British
    Title in Edison films catalog: Capture of Boer battery by the British
    "Nothing can exceed the stubborn resistance shown by the Gordon Highlanders, as we see them steadily advancing in the face of a murderous fire of the Boers, who are making their guns speak with rapid volleys. One by one the gunners fall beside their guns, and as the smoke clears for an instant the Highlanders are seen gaining nearer and nearer the disputed ground....
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1900
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    Skirmish of Rough Riders "Shielded by a thick bit of timber at a turn of the road stands a company of mounted men, awaiting the order to advance. In the foreground, left as the flotsam of battle, is a dead horse from the shelter of which two marksmen are picking off the enemy. Suddenly comes the command, "Forward," and the riders dash up the road, out of sight,...
    • 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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    Carmencita "Carmencita the Spanish dancer, sways her graceful figure and pirouttes with a whirl of flying skirts"--Edison motion pictures,1890-1900.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie) - Heise, William
    • Date: 1894
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    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
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    Baseball slow motion pictures--how Babe Ruth knocks a home run
    How Babe Ruth knocks a home run | Title from inventory: Baseball in slow motion
    The mighty swing of Babe Ruth is shown in all its grace, power and swatness through the use of slow motion. He is also seen striking out in normal speed. The batting skills of Cleveland Indians star Tris Speaker and New York Yankees Wallie Pipp, Yankee Robert William Meusel, the underhand pitching style of Yankee Carl Mays and the overhand pitching delivery of the...
    • Contributor: Select Safety Film Service - American Motion Picture Corporation
    • Date: 1926
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    The clown and the alchemist "Although we are led to believe that the ancient alchemists were all powerful, this picture somewhat reverses the order of things. The clown plays some wonderful pranks on the old professor. He appears and disappears in numerous startling positions, using his club with great effect and always escaping punishment. At last the alchemist brings his magic power into use, and calling two hooded assistants,...
    • Contributor: Smith, Albert E. (Albert Edward) - Blackton, James Stuart - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Vitagraph Company of America - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1900
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    Street mail car, U.S.P.O.
    Street mail car, United States Post Office | Title in Biograph production log: Street mail car and mail wagon
    "The first scene appears to have been taken on a main thoroughfare of large city. In the immediate foreground is a horse-drawn U.S. mail vehicle waiting at the side of a streetcar track. Soon a streetcar approaches the camera position. It stops beside the mail vehicle and the driver unloads mail sacks from the streetcar. He then puts some sacks from his wagon onto...
    • Contributor: Weed, A. E. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1903
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    Tenderloin at night
    Variant title from Edison motion pictures, 1890-1900: Tenderloin after two in the morning
    A man walks into a bar in the Tenderloin, where he is greeted enthusiastically by the patrons. The bartender brings a round of drinks for everyone. While one of the women distracts the newcomer, one of the men spikes his drink and he soon passes out. While he is unconscious, one of the women takes his watch. Another takes his wallet and slips it...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1899
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    Panoramic view of the President's house at Canton, Ohio
    Title in Edison films catalog no. 135: Circular panorama of President McKinley's house | Variant title from AFI catalog: film beginnings, 1893-1910: Circular panorama of President William McKinley's house, Canton, O. | Variant title from AFI catalog: film beginnings, 1893-1910: Circular panorama, President McKinley's house, Canton, O.
    "Here we present probably the most interesting and valuable of the McKinley funeral series. Our camera is located opposite the McKinley home on Market Street, Canton, at 9 A.M. on the day of the funeral, September 19th, 1901. As the camera revolves, immense crowds of people who are slowly passing the house come into view. The soldiers of the National Guard of the State...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
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    Battle of Chemulpo Bay A historical re-enactment of a naval battle in Chemulpo Bay off the coast of Korea during the Russo-Japanese war. Shows a Japanese ship damaging one Russian vessel and sinking another.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S. - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1904
  • Article
    The General LP23453; LP16449; PA201-243; PA265-994; PA421-157 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: Joseph M. Schenck; 22Dec26; LP23453. Minor change version: [Rev. ed.] / with an original musical score by Rosa Rio at the Hammond organ. -- United States : Video Yesteryear, 1984. Copyright for minor change version [Rev. ed.]: Video Yesteryear. DCR 1984; PUB 31Oct84; REG 30Jul85; PA265-994. Minor change version: [Restored ed.] / Killiam Shows, Inc....
    • Contributor: Jennings, Dev - United Artists Corporation - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Haines, Bert - Mack, Marion - Schenck, Joseph M. - Afi/Sonneborn (Jonathan) Collection (Library of Congress) - Boasberg, AL - Keaton, Buster - Afi/Glass (Murray) Collection (Library of Congress) - Buster Keaton Productions - Cavender, Glen - Afi/Triangle Laboratories Estate Collection (Library of Congress) - Bruckman, Clyde
    • Date: 1926
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    Little mischief "Papa is reading his newspaper and his little girl tickles his neck with a long straw. Thinking it is a fly papa "shoos" away the supposed fly with his hand. The tickling continues now on the ear, and papa waves his newspaper around his head. Not yet content, the little mischief maker continues her fun, and the man loses all patience, and makes such...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - American Vitagraph Company - Smith, Albert E. (Albert Edward) - Afi/Holt (H.L.) Collection (Library of Congress) - Blackton, James Stuart
    • Date: 1900
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    Testing large turbines, Westinghouse Co. works
    Variant title: Westinghouse works | Title in Biograph photo catalog, v. 6 and Biograph Co. prod. records: Testing large turbine, Westinghouse works | Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 | Variant title: Testing large turbines, Westinghouse works | Westinghouse works | Testing large turbine, Westinghouse works | Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 | Testing large turbines, Westinghouse works
    On the left of the screen, a small group of men lift the top off of what appears to be a turbine with a crane and continue to check the machine, tightening various parts with wrenches. On the right side, a few men appear to be testing the workings of what may be a turbine.
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1904
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    New York Harbor Police boat Patrol capturing pirates
    N.Y. Harbor Police boat "Patrol" capturing pirates
    "The "Patrol" is seen chasing a row-boat containing river pirates. The pirates are pulling at the oars with all their strength, but a few shots from the Police Boat weaken their nerves and they give up. When the "Patrol" comes up near them, it lowers a dory and a number of policemen make the capture. As the pirates are landed on the Police Boat...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S. - Smith, James Blair
    • Date: 1903-01-01
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    Love in a hammock
    Title in Edison films catalog: Love in a hammok
    From Edison films catalog: A happy young couple are seated in a hammock under an old oak tree, ardently making love and evidently totally oblivious to all that is taking place about them. Two bad boys suddenly appear upon the scene, and one of them climbs into the tree while the other keeps watch. The urchin in the tree scrambles out on an overhanging...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1901
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    Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton, Cal "The background of this picture is the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, Cal. This observatory, the gift of James Lick, of Pennsylvania, was constructed at a cost of $700,000, being equipped with one of the most powerful telescopes that has ever been produced, and is famous the world over. The view of the Observatory is very complete, showing the style of architecture, including the glass...
    • Contributor: Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1897
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    Pilot boats in New York harbor A New York harbor pilot boat passes close enough for members of the crew to be seen [Frame: 0471]. Following the sailing vessel is a steamship [Frame: 0780]. "A close view of an eighty footer, schooner-rigged, trim as a private yacht, skimming over the waters of the harbor near Robin's Reef [i.e., Robbins Reef], which picturesque little lighthouse is seen in the near background....
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - White, James - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1899-01-01
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    TR'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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    May and December An older man is engaged to a young woman, and an older woman is engaged to a young man. The couples meet several times by chance. Eventually, the young man and woman go off together, leaving the older man and woman embracing.
    • Contributor: Powell, Frank E. - Biograph Company - Bruce, Kate - Pickford, Mary - Quirk, Billy - Marvin, Arthur W. - Mailes, Charles H. (Charles Hill) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Miller, W. Christy
    • Date: 1910
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    Beverly of Graustark Beverly Calhoun is invited by her friend, Princess Yestive of Graustark, to pay her a visit. On her journey, she is waylaid by bandits, and becomes entangled in the political problems of a neighboring country, whose ruler Prince Dantan, has been ousted by his evil half-brother Gabriel. Dantan, disguised as a simple goat hunter, has been driven into hiding in the mountains with his...
    • Contributor: Perley, Charles - Klaw & Erlanger - West, Charles H. - Robinson, Gertrude - Protective Amusement Company - Arvidson, Linda - Butler, William J. - Drouet, Robert - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Brammall, Jack - McCutcheon, George Barr
    • Date: 1914
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    Panorama exterior Westinghouse works
    Variant title: Westinghouse works | Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 1 | Title in Biograph photo catalog, v. 6: Railroad from Pittsburg to Stewart, Westinghouse works | Shooting title in Biograph Co. prod. records: Railroad panorama, Pittsburg to Stewart, Westinghouse works | Panorama of exterior | Westinghouse works | Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 1 | Railroad from Pittsburg to Stewart, Westinghouse works | Railroad panorama, Pittsburg to Stewart, Westinghouse works
    The view from a moving train shows some of the Westinghouse interests and the surrounding areas. It appears that the film is in two parts and has been incorrectly spliced together with the last part put first. The film is supposed to show one rail route, but maps indicate that the first part of the film logically should be placed last. The first part...
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1904
  • Film, Video
    Market Street before parade
    Variant title from Biograph production logs: Route of parade previous arrival of Pres. Roosevelt | Variant title from Biograph production logs: Route of president's parade
    This film is an automobile tour of a portion of the arrival parade route of President Theodore Roosevelt along Market Street, San Francisco, on Tuesday, May 12, 1903. The film was shot in the mid-afternoon, shortly before the parade, which traversed this portion of the route in the reverse direction shown here. The earlier portion of the route is seen in the film "Over...
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Miles, Herbert J.
    • Date: 1903
  • Film, Video
    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
  • Film, Video
    Faust and Marguerite "Marguerite is seated before the fireplace, Faust standing by her side. Mephistopheles enters and offers his sword to Faust, commanding him to behead the fair Marguerite. Faust refuses, whereupon Mephistopheles draws the sword across the throat of the lady and she suddenly disappears and Faust is seated in her place. 60 feet"--Edison films catalog.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1900
  • Film, Video
    Rube and Mandy at Coney Island
    Title in Edison films catalog: Rube and Mandy's visit to Coney Island
    "The first scene shows a country couple entering Steeplechase Park. They proceed to amuse themselves on the steeplechase, rope bridge, the "Down and Out" and riding the bulls. The scene then changes to a panorama of Luna Park, showing Rube and Mandy doing stunts on the rattan slide, riding on the miniature railway, shooting the chutes, riding the boats in the old mill, and...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1903
  • Film, Video
    Over the hills to the poor house
    Title from Biograph bulletins 1896-1908: Over the hills to the poorhouse | Title from Internet movie database: Over the hill to the poorhouse
    The widowed elderly mother of three adult children, two sons and a daughter, wishing to relieve herself of the burden of care of her property, decides to divide it up among her children. To her son Charles, a wild but kind young fellow, she leaves a small amount, feeling that he will soon run through it. The good-hearted boy is perfectly satisfied, believing in...
    • Contributor: Taylor, Stanner E. V. - Bitzer, G. W. - Auer, Florence - O'Sullivan, Tony - Griffith, D. W. (David Wark) - Carleton, Will - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Marvin, Arthur W. - Sennett, Mack - Dillon, Edward - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - McCutcheon, Wallace - Vignola, Robert G.
    • Date: 1908
  • Film, Video
    Steamscow "Cinderella" and ferryboat "Cincinnati"
    Variant title: Steam scow "Cinderella" and ferry boat "Cincinnati"
    "The film, photographed from a camera positioned on a dock, shows a large steam scow passing the camera location; simultaneously, a large paddle-wheel ferryboat passes in the opposite direction. The weather was not conducive to good photography; no details of either of the craft are distinct enough for further elaboration"--Early motion pictures.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1903
  • Film, Video
    Throwing mail into bags, U.S.P.O.
    Title from Biograph production log: Throwing mail into bags for destination
    "This film concerns the separation of mail parcels before distribution. A semicircular rack of mail bags, each tagged with a different location, is placed on a set of the interior of a postal building. Two postal employees throw packages of envelopes brought to them by another employee into the marked mail bags"--Early motion pictures.
    • Contributor: Weed, A. E. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1903
  • Film, Video
    Interior N.Y. subway, 14th St. to 42nd St
    Interior New York subway, Fourteenth Street to Forty-second Street | Title from Biograph production log: Interborough Subway 8 from 14th St. to 42nd St | Variant title from Biograph production log: Interborough subway from 14th St. to 42nd St | Variant title from the Internet movie database: New York subway | Variant title from the Internet movie database: In the N.Y. subway | Variant title from the Internet movie database: Interboro subway | Interborough Subway 8 from 14th St. to 42nd St | Interborough subway from 14th St. to 42nd St | New York subway | In the N.Y. subway | Interboro subway
    The camera platform was on the front of a New York subway train following another train on the same track. Lighting is provided by a specially constructed work car on a parallel track. At the time of filming, the subway was only seven months old, having opened on October 27, 1904. The ride begins at 14th Street (Union Square) following the route of today's...
    • Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1905
  • Film, Video
    White Horse Rapids "This picture was taken at the historical point signified by the above title, where so many daring and venturesome miners have lost their lives in attempting to shoot these mad and turbulent rapids in their flat bottom boats, constructed for the purpose of navigating the treacherous Yukon River, which flows through the rich gold fields of Alaska. This picture was secured at the time...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Bonine, R. (Robert K.) - Crahan, Thomas
    • Date: 1900
  • Film, Video
    Going through the tunnel "On the way to Santa Monica, Cal., the train approaches, runs through and emerges from a tunnel. Train passes in opposite direction. Camera is at front end of train, giving a very novel view. 100 feet"--Edison films catalog, no. 94. "Southern Pacific Company series: The Southern Pacific Company ("Sunset Route") offers special inducements to winter travelers, by reason of its southern route, thereby avoiding...
    • Contributor: Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1898
  • Film, Video
    [Scenes of the British royal family]
    King George and Queen Mary of England
    Queen Mary, King George in the uniform of an Admiral of the Fleet, members of the Royal family, a clergyman, and other unidentified people are walking in procession into St. Margaret's Church, Westminster. The occasion is probably "Remembrance Day," Aug. 4, 1918, the fourth anniversary of World War I. The Royal family, joined by the two Houses of Parliament and representatives of the overseas...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - United States. Army. Signal Corps - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1918
  • Film, Video
    Ching Ling Foo outdone "The magician enters upon the stage, and removing a covering from a small table, shakes it before the audience to show that there is nothing whatever concealed inside, places the cloth upon the floor, and when he removes it a large washtub is found to be entirely filled with water, which he splashes before the audience to show that there is no deception. He...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1900
  • Film, Video
    Capture of Boer battery "By the Gordon Highlanders. In the foreground are two Creusot guns, manned by the Dutch burghers. Smoke effects are due. The Highlanders are seen in the distance, approaching rapidly, easily distinguished by their kilts and bare legs. They sweep all before them, leaving the guns smoking and deserted as they pursue the flying Boers"--New York clipper.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1900
  • Article
    Foolish wives "Count Sergius Karamzin, a Russian adventurer, and his two "princess" cousins, Olga and Vera Petchnikoff, lease a villa at Monte Carlo and cultivate the friendship of American envoy Andrew J. Hughes and his young wife, Helen, who is flattered by the count's flirtations. While strolling in the country, the count and Helen take refuge from a storm in a hut, and though they are...
    • Contributor: Afi/British Film Institute/Museum of Modern Art Collection (Library of Congress) - Von Stroheim, Erich - Laemmle, Carl - Ripley, Arthur - Dupont - Christians, Rudolph - Gitt, Robert - George, Maude - Ainslee, Marian - Lennig, Arthur - Busch, Mae - Universal Film Manufacturing Company - Reynolds, Benjamin - Daniels, William
    • Date: 1972
  • Film, Video
    Arrival of emigrants [i.e. immigrants], Ellis Island
    Arrival of immigrants, Ellis Island | Arrival of emigrants, Ellis Island
    Depicts scenes at the Immigration Depot and a nearby dock on Ellis Island. Appears to show, first, a group of immigrants lined up to board a vessel leaving the island, then another group arriving at the island and being directed off of the dock and into the Depot by a uniformed official.
    • Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1906-01-01
  • Film, Video
    [Flag services for TR at Oyster Bay, October 1919]
    Flag services for Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, October 1919 | Children visit TR's grave, 1920
    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. View of two young girls and a boy placing flower bouquet and flag through fence surrounding TR's grave, event may not be part of flag ceremonies. Shots from different angles of...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Urban, Charles - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1919
  • Film, Video
    Panorama of Flatiron Building
    Eighth wonder | Flatiron Building panorama
    This shows a view looking south from Madison Square, across the intersection of Broadway, Fifth Avenue, and Twenty-third Street, to New York's famous skyscraper, the Fuller (or "Flatiron") Building, with a panorama of the surroundings. The cameraman elevates his camera, going from street level to the roof.
    • 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
  • Film, Video
    Count von Bernstorff of Germany Medium close shot of Count Johann von Bernstorff, German Ambassador to the U.S. (1908-1917), sitting and talking with an unidentified man in a car.
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Futter, Walter - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 191?
  • Film, Video
    High school field exercises, Missouri Commission "The cameraman placed his equipment on the side of an athletic field adjacent to a high school. During the course of the film, teen-age boys exhibit their skill at high jumping, pole vaulting, shot putting, discus throwing, and broad jumping. These events take place in the immediate area of the camera range. All the events are supervised by an adult who is visible on...
    • Contributor: Weed, A. E. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Missouri. Commission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1904
  • Film, Video
    The burglar's slide for life "The first scene shows the interior of a room in an apartment house. A burglar enters and seeing a portable vapor bath in the corner of the room gets into it to hide. Presently two ladies enter. One is the lady of the house and she is evidently showing her friend through the rooms. The new vapor bath interests her friend, so she lights...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Mannie - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1905
  • Film, Video
    Japanese and Russian peace delegates--leaving New York City, ...
    Japanese and Russian peace delegates arriving at Portsmouth, N.H., 1905 | Japanese and Russian peace delegates arrive at Portsmouth, N.H., 1905
    On Aug. 5, 1905, the Japanese and Russian delegations to the Portsmouth Peace Conference left New York City to board ships which would take them first to Oyster Bay to talk with TR and then to the conference in Portsmouth, N.H. Views at the wharf of the New York Yacht Club of the Japanese delegation boarding two U.S. Navy steam launches; part of the...
    • Contributor: Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1905
  • Film, Video
    Feeding the doves "A farm yard picture, showing a young girl and her baby sister scattering grain to the doves and chickens. The fluttering birds and excited fowls give an abundance of action to the scene, which is one of the prettiest, clearest and most attractive ever taken"--Maguire & Baucus catalogue.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Heise, William - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1896
  • Film, Video
    Westinghouse Air Brake Co. Westinghouse works
    Variant title: Westinghouse works | Title in Biograph photo catalog, v. 6: Westinghouse Air-Brake Company | Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 | Westinghouse works | Westinghouse Air-Brake Company | Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2
    A large group of men are shown performing various tasks in one room at the Westinghouse Air Brake Co. On one side, men are shown pouring a hot liquid into molds on the floor. A conveyor belt delivers items which are then taken off the belt by a man. Men on the other side of the screen appear to be lifting items out of...
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1904
  • Film, Video
    Chicago-Michigan football game
    College football. 1904-11-12, Chicago Maroons at Michigan Wolverines--excerpts
    Title from The George Kleine Collection catalog. Variant title is cataloger-supplied. Duration: 6:33 at 20 fps. Excerpts of the1904 game between the University of Michigan Wolverines and the University of Chicago Maroons. Michigan was undefeated. Chicago's record was marred by a single tie. Michigan coach, Fielding Yost, had defeated Chicago coach, Amos Alonzo Stagg, in each of his first three years, starting a long...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1904
  • Film, Video
    Panorama water front and Brooklyn Bridge from East River
    Panorama waterfront and Brooklyn Bridge from East River
    This film depicts the East River shoreline and the piers of lower Manhattan starting at about Pier 5 (the New York Central Pier) opposite Broad Street, and extending to the Mallory Line steamship piers just south of Fulton Street and the Brooklyn Bridge. The film begins with shots of canal boats or barges (from the Erie Canal via the Hudson River) docked at and...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1903-01-01
  • Film, Video
    The Dandy Fifth
    Title in American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue: Dandy 5th of Baltimore | Title in Biograph photo catalogue, 1902: Dandy Fifth of Baltimore | Title in Biograph bulletins 1896-1908: Dandy Fifth Regiment of Baltimore | Title in Biograph production log: Dandy 5th Reg. Maryland
    "Taken during the land parade in honor of Admiral Dewey, just before the turn into 72nd Street, with Grant's tomb and decorated residences in the background. This entire series of pictures [of the Dewey land parade] has a very high photographic quality, and the various organizations appear at their best"--American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue.
    • Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Armitage, F. S. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1899
  • Film, Video
    A ballroom tragedy
    Shooting title in Biograph Co. production logs: Ball room tragedy
    Opens on a set of a sitting room, apparently off a ballroom where dancers occasionally can be glimpsed through a curtained entrance stage right. Near the entrance, a young couple in formal attire talk--perhaps angrily--as another couple exit the dancing. The second man introduces his companion--a striking woman in a risqué white gown with a low-cut bodice and bare shoulders--to the other man and...
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1905
  • Film, Video
    Cutting and canaling ice The camera shows what appears to be a frozen-over lake on which men are driving teams of horses pulling a device similar to a plow. The second camera position shows that the horses are being driven in a straight line across the ice, with the device chiseling a groove, called canaling, into the ice. This action precedes removal of the ice for storage so...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1902
  • 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
    Charleston chain-gang "This picture shows the prisoners after completing their day's work of cleaning up the grounds of the Charleston Exposition, taking their positions along the long chain which secures the whole band of prisoners. They are marched past our camera to the prison, accompanied by the guards, who carry shotguns to prevent any from escaping"--Edison films catalog, no. 135.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1902
  • Film, Video
    Fireboat "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
  • Film, Video
    Fast mail, Northern Pacific R. R.
    Title in Edison films catalog: Fast mail Northern Pacific Railroad | Variant title from Edison motion pictures, 1890-1900: Fast mail, N.P.R.R. | Fast mail, Northern Pacific R.R.
    "Here is a twelve car train dashing along at a high rate of speed. It is seen first in the distance and approaches and passes by the camera. As it takes less than 30 seconds to show this 50 foot strip on a Projecting Kinetoscope, an idea may be formed of the speed of this pet train of the Northern Pacific Railway. The waving...
    • Contributor: Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1897
  • Film, Video
    Clerks casing mail for bags, U.S.P.O. "The subject is an operation of mail handling called "casing." The camera was placed so that two men can be seen demonstrating the method. The demonstrators, with stacks of letters in their hands, place them in one of many apertures built into a cabinet or "case"--Early motion pictures.
    • Contributor: Weed, A. E. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1903
  • Film, Video
    A rube couple at a county fair "The subject is a county fair. Most of the film consists of scenes of the various concessions and exhibits of trained horses, sulky races, and prize animals. Approximately half way through the film, two actors are brought into the picture. They are made up to appear as country rubes. The camera pans to show that the man wants to see a group of seminude...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1904
  • Film, Video
    Tossing eggs
    Egg rolling at the White House
    Depicts a great crowd of men, women and children, from every walk of life, playing and scrambling together on the lawn of the White House on the occasion of the annual White House Easter Egg Roll.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1902
  • Article
    The bargain
    Variant title: Two-gun man in the bargain
    Outlaw Jim Stokes robs a stagecoach using stuffed dummies as "accomplices". Pursued and wounded, he collapses by a water hole. He is found by a kindly miner and nursed back to health by the miner's daughter, Nell. Stokes falls in love with Nell and decides to return the money and reform. Nell and Stokes are married, but the very next day, as he is...
    • Contributor: Sherry, Barney - Dowling, J. J. (Joseph J.) - Newhard, Robert - Ince, Thomas H. - New York Motion Picture Corp - Williams, Clara - Barker, Reginald - Burke, J. Frank (John Franklin) - Clifford, William H. - Hart, William S. (William Surrey) - August, Joseph H. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Paramount Pictures Corporation
    • Date: 1914
  • Film, Video
    [Vitagraph paper print fragments. No. 7] Copyright: each fragment registered separately; copyright information given in content notes. Running time of 21 minutes for digital file includes added titles. All acetate material copied from bromide photographic paper prints deposited as motion picture copyright registrations during 1905-06. More detailed information on the paper prints in this collection may be found in the Motion Picture and TV Reading Room at the Library of...
    • Contributor: Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Vitagraph Company of America
    • Date: 1908
  • 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
    Latina, contortionist
    Title in Biograph production log: Latina, contortionist-act-with-rings
    A woman wearing a light-colored leotard, gathered at the waist, and tights stands against a black background. Although she is filmed in a long shot, her feet are cut off in the frame. She opens with a flourish of her arms and faces the camera. First stretching up with her arms, Latina then bends in half at the waist, steps into a metal ring...
    • Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Latina - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1905
  • Film, Video
    Union Iron Works "Here was built the peerless battleship "Oregon." The scene is taken at lunch hour, and shows a great throng of employees leaving the shop. 50 feet"--Edison films catalog, no. 94, March 1900, p. 21. "Southern Pacific Company series: The Southern Pacific Company ("Sunset Route") offers special inducements to winter travelers, by reason of its southern route, thereby avoiding the extreme cold of the winter...
    • Contributor: Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1898
  • Film, Video
    Excavation for subway
    Title in Biograph production log: Excavation for subway at Union Square | Title in AFI catalog: New York's new subway
    "The film was photographed from a single camera position, elevated to make possible a good view of the excavation of what appears to be a large tunnel. There are cranes, horse-drawn vehicles, as well as electrical and internal combustion machines"--Early motion pictures.
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Bonine, R. (Robert K.)
    • Date: 1903
  • Film, Video
    Panoramic view aisle B., Westinghouse works
    Variant title: Westinghouse works | Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 | Westinghouse works | Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2
    Filmed using a camera on an overhead crane, a traveling view of a large, long aisle is shown. Men are busy performing various tasks on machinery, probably generators. Other men are walking down the aisle in all directions, and carts carrying items come and go. The film ends when the camera reaches the end of the aisle where windows and a large opening are....
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1904
  • Film, Video
    Special delivery messenger, U.S.P.O.
    Title from Biograph production log: Special delivery messenger delivering letter
    "As the scene opens, the front of a house, the shrubbery, a staircase, and the sidewalk are visible. From camera left, using a flying dismount, comes a bicycle rider in the uniform of a special delivery messenger. After parking his bicyle, he goes up the stairs to the front door of the house. A woman emerges, he hands her a letter, returns to his...
    • Contributor: Weed, A. E. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1903
  • 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
    The old maid having her picture taken
    Title in Edison films catalog: Old maid posing for her picture
    "Scene opens in a photographer's studio. A typical old maid, impersonated by Mr. Gilbert Saroni [sic], enters to have her picture made. While the photographer is making his camera ready the old maid walks about the studio. She first looks at a hanger with a number of photo samples, which immediately falls from the wall, not being able to stand her gaze. She then...
    • Contributor: Sarony, Gilbert - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1901
  • Film, Video
    Gold and diamond mines of South Africa Shows how gold and diamonds are extracted from the earth and processed in the province of Transvaal in South Africa. Pictures gold mining operations at the Joch Mine near Johannesburg and diamond mining operations at the Premier Mine in the town of Cullinan. Includes street scenes of Johannesburg and of Kimberley, the center of the world's largest diamond mining operations.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - K.E.S.E. (Firm) - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1917
  • Film, Video
    Esquimaux Village
    Eskimo Village
    "The first of three camera positions shows a low building resembling an igloo beside a small pool, and an ice floe. Dark-complexioned people dressed as Eskimos run up and down alongside the pool, and a dog pulls a sled. Next, some sled dogs are led in front of the camera. The last camera position shows the same dogs running into a tent made from...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S. - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1901
  • Film, Video
    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
  • Film, Video
    The golden lily
    Lys d'or | Unidentified Gaumont
    A poor, elderly violinist takes refuge in a cathedral. When he plays his violin there, the Madonna appears before him and gives him a golden lily. He tries to sell the lily to a goldsmith, but the goldsmith and his wife doubt the violinist's story. They summon guards who bring him before the Holy Office. He is found guilty and is about to be...
    • Contributor: Société Des Établissements Gaumont - Afi/Atkinson (Dennis) Collection (Library of Congress) - George Kleine (Firm) - Perret, Léonce
    • Date: 1910-01-01
  • Film, Video
    Broadway & Union Square, New York
    Broadway and Union Square, New York | Scene on Broadway
    A horse-drawn street car with a sign for Broadway pulls away from the camera with a full compliment of passengers. Another approaches the camera position and they pass. The first car stops to pick up and drop off passengers. Pedestrians walk pass on both sides of the street.
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Marvin, Arthur W.
    • Date: 1903-01-01