American scrapbook
Dramatized incidents show various phases of life in the United States: the use of the centralized traffic control to direct the passing of two trains on a single track; the use of...
Contributor:
Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - General Electric Company
Date:1954
Film, Video
Manchukuo
Manchuria
Depicts the Japanese occupation of Manchukuo. Describes the mechanization of industry. Includes scenes showing coal and iron mines, steel mills, railroads, government buildings, new housing, native Chinese life, shops and trade, the...
Contributor:
Bryan, Julien H. (Julien Hequembourg) - Eastman Kodak Company. Teaching Films Division
Date:1938
Film, Video
Americanism wins, Coolidge elected.
Calvin Coolidge as Governor of Massachusetts, 1919 | Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge and their sons
Views of Calvin Coolidge in the months surrounding his re-election as Massachusetts Governor, autumn 1919. Close shot of Coolidge, his wife Grace, and their sons John and Calvin, Jr., on porch of...
Contributor:
Kinograms Publishing Corp - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1919
Film, Video
Jamestown Exposition, 1907
Scenes of Theodore Roosevelt at the Jamestown Exposition in Norfolk, Virginia, in April and June, 1907, participating in Jamestown's tercentennial celebration on April 26, its opening day, and later on Georgia Day,...
Contributor:
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1907
Film, Video
International naval review, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1907
Ships of foreign countries and the U.S. Atlantic Fleet participate in the international naval review which marks the opening of the Jamestown Exposition April 26, 1907. TR, with his family and guests,...
Contributor:
Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1907
Film, Video
The Forbidden City, Pekin
City of Pekin, China, 1903 | Panoramic view of the Forbidden City | Panorama of Forbidden City
Views of the Forbidden City (Imperial Palace), Peking, China: camera, probably located atop the Meridian Gate (Wu Men) pans from the east, past the Gate of Great Harmony (T'ai Ho Men) with...
Contributor:
Ackerman, Raymond - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Biograph Company - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1903
Film, Video
A day with Thomas A. Edison
A six-part documentary recording the 74-year-old Edison's collaborations with his staff, conversations with industrial leaders, and supervision of the factory's production line. The majority of the film (parts 3, 4, and 5)...
Contributor:
Edison Collection (Library of Congress) - Bray Studios - General Electric Company
Date:1922
Film, Video
The living cell
"Shows the division and growth of single-celled organisms, including yeast, amoebae, and paramecia, and of progressively more complex organisms, including the hydra and flatworm. Shows tissue cells, ciliated epithelium, and plant and...
Contributor:
Hoke, George Wilson - Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc - Eastman Teaching Films, Inc. (Rochester, N.Y.)
Date:1945
Film, Video
Ghosts
A tragedy in which the sins of a father are visited upon his children as revealed in the story of a young man who unknowingly falls in love with his half-sister. When...
Contributor:
Alden, Mary - Smith, Russell E. - Filson, Al - Griffith, D. W. (David Wark) - Walthall, Henry (Henry Brazeale) - Afi/Killiam (Paul) Collection (Library of Congress) - Mutual Film Corporation - Ibsen, Henrik - Majestic Motion Picture Company - Nicholls, George - Blake, Loretta - Afi/Yale University Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1915
Film, Video
The river
Depression-era documentary which chronicles the exploration and exploitation of the Mississippi River from the Civil War through the 1920s.
Contributor:
Van Dyke, Willard - Afi/Sheerin (Robert M.) Collection (Library of Congress) - Museum of Modern Art Collection (Library of Congress) - Chalmers, Thomas - United States. Farm Security Administration - Zochling, Leo - Nosler, Lloyd - Lorentz, Pare - Crosby, Floyd - Woodard, Stacy - Young (Robert) Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1938
Film, Video
All my babies...a midwife's own story
Midwife's own story
A training film for midwives. Shows in detail a complete delivery and demonstrates the approved procedures to be used by the midwife before, during, and after delivery. Follows a midwife, Mrs. Mary...
Contributor:
Mitchell, Hannah D. - Columbia University. Press. Center for Mass Communication - Association of American Medical Colleges. Medical Audio-Visual Institute - Applebaum, Louis - Stoney, George C. - Cadwallader, Marian F. - Cummins, Sylvia K. - Georgia. Department of Public Health - Bond, Peaslee
Date:1953
Film, Video
A trip down Market Street before the fire
"Produced as part of the popular Hale's Tours of the World film series, the film begins at the location of the Miles Brothers film studio, 1139 Market Street, between 8th and 9th...
Contributor:
Miles Brothers
Date:1906
Film, Video
San Francisco earthquake and fire, April 18, 1906
Shows the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906, and the devastation resulting from the subsequent three-day fire. The earthquake struck at 5:12 a.m. San Francisco, with thousands of...
Contributor:
Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Edison Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1910
Film, Video
[Theater commercial--Flash cleaner]
Product ads
Film advertisement for Flash Cleaner, "cleans the hands and homes of millions." Features triple-exposure shots appealing to both the factory mechanic and the housewife.
Contributor:
Afi/Keene State College Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:192?
Film, Video
[Theater commercial--Warner's corsets]
Warner corset advertisement
A fictionalized story of "Warner's fashionable rust-proof corsets, guaranteed not to rust, break or tear." On the way to bed, a little girl spies her mother's corset and tries it on in...
Contributor:
Afi/Raes (Walter K. And Marika A.) Collection (Library of Congress)
Contributor:
Afi/Kalinowski (Eugene) Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1926
Film, Video
[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...
Contributor:
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Vitagraph Company of America
Date:1908
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...
Contributor:
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Vitagraph Company of America
Date:1908
Film, Video
[Vitagraph paper print fragments. No. 8]
Copyright: each fragment registered separately; copyright information given in content notes. Running time of 22 minutes for digital file includes added titles. All acetate material copied from bromide photographic paper prints deposited...
Contributor:
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Vitagraph Company of America
Date:1908
Film, Video
[Vitagraph paper print fragments. No. 9]
Copyright: each fragment registered separately; copyright information given in content notes. Running time of 17 minutes for digital file includes added titles. All acetate material copied from bromide photographic paper prints deposited...
Contributor:
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Vitagraph Company of America
Date:1908
Film, Video
[Vitagraph paper print fragments. No. 13]
Copyright: each fragment registered separately; copyright information given in content notes. Running time of 24 minutes for digital file includes added titles. All acetate material copied from bromide photographic paper prints deposited...
Contributor:
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Vitagraph Company of America
Date:1909
Film, Video
Land of the free
Automotive industry
Presents the panoply of American history, the richness of American human and natural resources, and the greatness of American freedoms. Reviews the country's industrial and agriculture wealth and relates the stories of...
Contributor:
Wilding Picture Productions. Distribution Department - Wilding Picture Productions - Chrysler Corporation. Dodge Division - Weeks, Al - Pelletier, Vincent
Date:1940
Film, Video
Behind your radio dial
This program presents a backstage view of radio and television broadcasting. It includes capsule summaries of the departments making up the NBC network organization, scenes of rehearsals and broadcasts by NBC's top...
Contributor:
Shulman, Alan - Sullivan, Neil - Montagne, Edward J. - Reisman, Philip H. - Grauer, Ben - Toscanini, Arturo - RKO-Pathe - National Broadcasting Company
Date:1949
Film, Video
The lost battalion
Based on the experiences of soldiers in the American 77th Infantry Division, about 550 of whom were isolated and surrounded by the Germans during the Battle of the Argonne in World War...
Contributor:
Young, Tammany - Davenport, Blanche - King, Burton - Coakley, Marion - D'albrook, Sidney - Macmanus Corporation - Logue, Charles A. - Robson, May - Learn, Bessie - Macmanus, Edward A. - W.H. Productions Company - Ferguson, Helen - Glass, Gaston
Date:1919
Film, Video
Interior N.Y. subway, 14th St. to 42nd St.
Interior New York subway, Fourteenth Street to Forty-second Street | 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...
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
Parade, fiftieth anniversary, Atlantic City, N.J.
Parade, 50th anniversary, Atlantic City, N.J.
Shows a parade held in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of Atlantic City in 1854. Includes views of patriotic floats, a U.S. Army Drum and Bugle Corps, and the...
Contributor:
Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Waters, Percival L.
Date:1904
Film, Video
The life of Buffalo Bill. Parts I-III
Life of Buffalo Bill. | Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Far East
Several events from Buffalo Bill Cody's life are reenacted in the form of dreamed flashbacks. Many scenes are from the Wild West show scenarios, including Buffalo Bill taking the scalp of Yellow...
Contributor:
Buffalo Bill & Pawnee Bill Film Co. - O'Brien, John - Ernst (Louise) Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1912
Film, Video
Coney Island at night
Shows concessions at Thompson and Dundy's Luna Park and Dreamland on Coney Island. Taken at night by the light of the concessions themselves. Shows both close-up and distance shots, elevated and at...
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:1905
Film, Video
Skirmish between Russian and Japanese advance guards
Japanese outpost on the Yalu River
Renactment of a skirmish that was likely to have occurred in the Russo-Japanese War. Opens with an establishing scene entitled "A Japanese outpost on the Yalu River," which shows the Japanese soldiers...
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
Film, Video
Mystic Shriner's Day, Dreamland, Coney Island
A parade of Mystic Shriners in ritual costumes and traditional hats, carrying a banner reading "Mecca"; some walk, some are mounted on horses, a few ride on camels and on one elephant....
Contributor:
Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
Contributor:
Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1903
Film, Video
On a good old 5 [cent] trolley ride
[On] a [good old] five cent trolley ride | Five cent trolley ride
Amusing characters board an unsteady trolley at each stop, and then abandon the streetcar in order to chase a man who brought on board a basket full of snakes that got loose....
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)
Contributor:
Pathe News - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1925
Film, Video
[Push carts--East side]
Market scenes which show push cart vendors displaying a variety of merchandise on a busy, crowded street in what appears to be a multi-ethnic tenement district. Camera is mounted on a moving...
Contributor:
Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1900
Film, Video
Titanic disaster
Titanic
Shows E. J. Smith, who was later commander of the Titanic, inspecting the Titanic's sister ship Olympia (i.e., Olympic), which was launched on April 31, 1911. (From 108-115', this medium close-up footage...
Contributor:
Warner's Features - Globe Film Company - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1912
Film, Video
Poor John
Vesta Victoria (Poor John) | Vesta Victoria singing Poor John
Vesta Victoria, a British music hall entertainer, enters a stage and appears to sing the popular tune "Poor John," (composer Henry E. Pether; lyricist, Fred W. Leigh), using gestures to illustrate the...
Contributor:
Vesta Victoria - Porter, Edwin S. - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Belcher-Waterson Amusement Co.
Date:1907
Film, Video
Empire State Express, the second, taking water on the fly
"The second Empire State Express, behind a 4-4-2 Atlantic locomotive, demonstrates how to take water on the fly by scooping it out of a pan set between the railroad tracks"--George Kleine Collection...catalog,...
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:1905
Film, Video
Crossing ice bridge at Niagara Falls
A 360 degree pan of Niagara Falls during the extremely severe winter of 1903-04; the camera was positioned on or near the ice frozen over the top of the rapids created by...
Contributor:
Porter, Edwin S. - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Edison, Thomas A. - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1904
Film, Video
Single harness horses
"Shows ten horses hitched to fashionable carts driven past the judges and grandstand to show their style, action and high-stepping movements. Among the drivers, Charles F. (Fatty ) Bates, the noted whip,...
Contributor:
Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Heise, William
