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    Interrupted lovers
    Title in Edison films catalog, no. 105: Interrupted lover | Inventory title: Comedy scene | Interrupted lover | Comedy scene
    "The watchful father disturbs a dream of bliss, and the bucolic lover is taught a lesson. He made a great hit"--Edison films catalog, no. 105.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Heise, William - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1896
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    [Le Professeur Freud de Vienne à Londres par Paris--Sigmund Freud--home movies]
    Former supplied title: Freud, Sigmund--home movies from Freud archives, 1937-1938 | Variant title: Sigmund Freud--home movies
    The film, "Professor Freud from Vienna to London via Paris, Part One," opens in the summer of 1937 at the home of Ruth Mack Brunswick and Mark Brunswick at 19 Hasenauerstrasse, Vienna, Austria, followed by scenes of the Freud family in their rented villa in Grinzing, Vienna, Austria, where they summered in 1934-1937. Visits by writer Arnold Zweig, his wife and son; psychoanalyst Max...
    • Contributor: Bonaparte, Marie
    • Date: 1937
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    The life of Buffalo Bill. Parts I-III
    Life of Buffalo Bill | Erroneous title: 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 Hand, an Indian attack on a wagon train, and a posse chase of a bandit named "Buck McCandell". The film is bookended by shots of the real Buffalo Bill preparing to nap...
    • Contributor: Buffalo Bill & Pawnee Bill Film Co - Ernst (Louise) Collection (Library of Congress) - O'Brien, John B.
    • Date: 1912
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    The morning alarm
    Variant title from Edison motion pictures, 1890-1900: Harrisburg fire run | Harrisburg fire run
    "Shows chief in his buggy, followed by fire engines, hose carts, hook and ladder, insurance patrol and a chemical engine. Horses snorting, plunging and galloping at full speed, directly toward the screen. The finiest fire engine scene ever taken"--Edison films catalog no. 105.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Heise, William - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1896
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    Czar Nicholas of Russia Long shots of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra leaving what may be a church located in Russia and passing between two lines of men who appear to be Cossack Escort of the Imperial Guard; Alexandra walks toward a carriage and the Czar mounts a horse and rides away.
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Futter, Walter - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 191?
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    [World War II color footage--American troops in Germany link up with Russian troops in Torgau; Dachau concentration camp after liberation]
    World War 2 color footage--American troops in Germany link up with Russian troops in Torgau; Dachau concentration camp after liberation | World War Two color footage--American troops in Germany link up with Russian troops in Torgau; Dachau concentration camp after liberation | Inventory title: Duben-Dachau
    In early 1945, Stevens and the SPECOU are with U.S. Army troops near Duben and then in Torgau for the link up with Russian troops. At the Dachau concentration camp after liberation, the SPECOU films the corpses of the inmates and German soldiers, the disinfection of the inmates, the identification of German captors by the inmates, everyday activities, and shots of the camp buildings,...
    • Contributor: Stevens, George - United States. Army. Signal Corps. Special Coverage Unit
    • Date: 1945
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    A dull razor "This picture shows an old gentleman seated at his shaving table. The razor is evidently giving him a great deal of trouble, as he catches hold of the brush and with a great show of impatience he hurriedly coats his face with the foaming soap and makes a second attempt at removing his beard. He scrapes and scrapes, and judging from the painful facial...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1900
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    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
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    [Sigmund Freud--home movies]
    Former supplied title: Freud, Sigmund--home movie excerpts | Variant title: Sigmund Freud--home movies
    The film opens with a close-up of Sigmund Freud in conversation, sitting outdoors, holding a cigar, and casually feeding one of his chows. The scene then shifts to Freud walking down a country lane with three adults and two children. The group includes Anna Freud. The others are most likely Martin Freud and Dorothy T. Burlingham, with two of her children. The film was...
    • Date: 1925
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    Empire State Express "The film opens on a scene of a railroad section gang mending tracks on a curved area. In the distane a locomotive can be seen approaching the camera position. As it goes by the camera, four cars can be counted, in addition to the locomotive. The track workers wave and cheer, and the white-coated Pullman porters standing on the steps of each car wave...
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie) - American Mutoscope Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1896
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    The lone fisherman Depicts the patient fisherman, sitting on the end of a plank, waiting for a bite. Practical joker comes along and removes stone from other end of plank"--Edison films catalog, no. 105.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Heise, William - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1896
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    San Francisco disaster
    Title from AFI catalog: film beginnings, 1893-1910: San Francisco | San Francisco
    This film shows the partial burning of a small-scale model of downtown San Francisco in an early attempt at simulating the 1906 disaster. The model is seen in aerial view from above the South-of-Market district, looking northwest toward Market Street and the downtown area. Russian Hill (left) and Telegraph Hill (right) are shown in a painted background. The Call Building at 3rd and Market...
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1906
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    [Rolling Stones at Altamont--home movie]
    Title on film leader: Stones in the park
    Silent, edited footage of the free concert at Altamont Speedway on the afternoon and evening of Saturday, December 6, 1969. The film begins and ends with a shot of burning wood. The footage taken in the daytime features Santana, Jefferson Airplane, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Keith Richards and Mick Jagger appear as spectators during The Flying Burrito Brothers'...
    • Date: 1969
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    [Lancaster, Pa., high school] "Shows boys and girls going out the door and down the steps of a high school building in Lancaster, Pa. The boys come out first, led by a man, probably a teacher, holding a young boy's hand. The boys wear suits, and a few carry books or instrument cases. The girls, wearing long dresses and broad-brimmed hats, follow the boys. The last person to...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1900
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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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    [Newark athlete. No. 1]
    Variant title in Edison motion pictures 1890-1900: Club swinger, no. 1 | Variant title in Edison motion pictures 1890-1900: Indian club swinger | Variant LC title: Early Edison camera tests | Variant LC title: Newark athlete | Club swinger, no. 1 | Indian club swinger | Early Edison camera tests | Newark athlete
    Experimental film made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Edison Collection (Library of Congress) - Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie) - Heise, William
    • Date: 1891
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    Packing ammunition on mules, Cuba "Dotting the horizon on the right of the picture is the great fleet of transports, while scattered all along the beach and piled high to the left are hundreds upon hundreds of ammunition cases. Soldier boys in the foreground are packing the boxes on the patient army mules. An officer stands by bossing the job. Two boxes are tied on each mule"--The Phonoscope, October...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Paley, William Daly
    • Date: 1898
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    [Dickson greeting]
    Variant LC title: Early Edison camera tests | Early Edison camera tests
    Experimental film made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Edison Collection (Library of Congress) - Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie) - Heise, William
    • Date: 1891
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    Panoramic view of Tremont Hotel, Galveston
    Title in Edison films catalog, no. 135: Panorama of Tremont Hotel, Galveston | Title in Edison films catalog, no. 288: Panorama, Tremont Hotel, Galveston | Title from New York clipper, September 29, 1900: Panoramic view of Galveston, from Tremont Hotel | Title from New York clipper, September 22, 1900: Wreck of Tremont Hotel, Galveston | Panorama of Tremont Hotel, Galveston | Panorama, Tremont Hotel, Galveston | Panoramic view of Galveston, from Tremont Hotel | Wreck of Tremont Hotel, Galveston
    "This picture shows several buildings which were wrecked and also shows a rear view of this hotel, which is on the highest point of land in Galveston, and in which several thousand people were saved. 50 feet"--Edison films catalog, no. 105. "The Galveston Cyclone series. At the first news of the disaster by cyclone and tidal wave that devastated Galveston on Saturday, Sept. 8th,...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Albert E. (Albert Edward) - Vitagraph Company of America
    • Date: 1900
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    Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. attends Women in War Work Congress in Paris [1918]
    Screen telegram
    During World War I, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. worked for the YMCA in France running canteens, clubs, and leave centers for soldiers and teaching French. She also designed the uniforms worn by the women workers in the YMCA. Views of Mrs. Roosevelt entertaining women YMCA workers in the garden of the home of her aunt, Mrs. Alice Green Hoffman, in Paris. There are medium...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Roosevelt, Eleanor Butler - Mutual Film Corporation - International Newsreel Corporation - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1918
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    Buffalo Bill's Wild West parade
    Parade of Buffalo Bill's Wild West
    The film shows a parade down Fifth Avenue, New York. In the foreground many children, both black and white, can be seen following alongside the parade. The participants in the parade include cowboys, Indians, and soldiers in the uniform of the United States Cavalry on horseback and riding horse-drawn coaches. Buffalo Bill can be seen on horseback, lifting his hat to the crowd.
    • Contributor: Armitage, F. S. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901-01-01
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    Wakulla Springs and World War II Troop Maneuvers. In this 1940s film, made in northwest Florida in color but without sound, U.S. Army troops practice slogging through a cypress swamp, make a human chain across the river, crawl on their bellies, and use weeds and Spanish moss for camouflage. The troops fire machine guns, shoot from trees, and swim in an assault across the river. As the troops hit the shore, smoke...
    • Date: 1940-01-01
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    The first sleigh-ride "This subject taken just after the recent first fall of snow, shows two enthusiastic horsemen indulging in a "brush" with their respective horses and cutters"--Maguire & Baucus catalogue.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Heise, William - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1897
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    Panoramic view of the White Pass Railroad
    Variant title from Edison films catalog, no. 135: Panoramic view from the White Pass Railroad
    "This scene was taken shortly after the completion of this railroad in 1899. The impression received by the audience is that of riding on the pilot of an engine. Shortly after starting, you plunge into the darkness of the tunnel, afterwards to emerge, and crossing a high trestle skirting the edge of a deep chasm, you continue to wind about among the mountains and...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Bonine, R. (Robert K.) - Crahan, Thomas
    • Date: 1899
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    Cartoon of TR's reception by crowned heads of Europe
    Cartoon of Theodore Roosevelt's reception by crowned heads of Europe
    Animated cartoon of Roosevelt's reception in Europe during his April-June 1910 tour. Sequences of crowned heads of Europe sitting in an open automobile, labeled Europe, located on a pier. TR, carrying a big stick, is in the bow of a ship that approaches the pier as the crowned heads wave. Caricatured are: TR; Victor Emanuel III of Italy; Manuel II of Portugal; Franz Joseph...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1910