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Film, VideoSteam hammer, 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 From what appears to be a furnace, a large, glowing block is lifted with the help of a crane over to a table by a group of men. A hammer comes from...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, Video2 A. M. in the subway
Two A. M. in the subway Opens on a set of a subway platform, with two tracks on either side and stairs leading up to the exit. A policeman stretches wearily and sits on a box, as a...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1905
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Film, VideoShooting the Chutes, Luna Park, Coney Island
Title from Biograph production log: Shooting the Chutes, Luna Park "The camera was positioned to view the Shoot-the-Chutes concession from the best location. A special added attraction for the entertainment of the spectators is a man in a swimming suit who rides...- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903
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Film, VideoSociety ballooning, Pittsfield, Mass At the beginning of the film, a group of men can be seen gathered around a flat area near a large municipal gas tank. Most of the group are attending to the...
- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1906
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Film, VideoAssembling a generator, 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 A group of men work on various parts of a large generator, assembling the pieces. A crane carries a large piece of the generator over to the rest of the machine, and...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoLevi & Cohen, the Irish comedians
Levi and Cohen, the Irish comedians Opens on a vaudeville or variety stage with a flat painted curtain of a stone fence and garden. On the right side of the stage sits a sign that reads "Zuzu Daffy,...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903
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Film, VideoCleveland fire department The subject is the activities of a fire department that can be seen coming out of the fire engine house located across the street from the camera position. The action must have...
- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903
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Film, VideoSan Francisco disaster
Title from AFI catalog: film beginnings, 1893-1910: 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...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1906
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Film, VideoSpirit of '76 Dramatic recreation of the painting "The spirit of '76" by Archibald M. Willard. Opens on a stage with a painted backdrop of a battlefield and stage props of dirt, stones, and a...
- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Willard, Archibald M. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1905
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Film, VideoWestinghouse Air Brake Co. Westinghouse Co. works (moulding scene)
Variant title: Westinghouse works | Title in Biograph photo catalog, v. 6 and Biograph Co. prod. records: Westinghouse Co. no. 3, moulding machine | Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 | Westinghouse works | Westinghouse Co. no. 3, moulding machine | Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 Men working in teams carry buckets of molten material and pour the material into what appear to be molds lined up on the ground.- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoLatina, 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...- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Latina - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1905
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Film, VideoThe Battle of the Yalu. No. 1-4 Depicts the Battle of Yalu, in the Russo-Japanese War, which took place at the Yalu River, on the border of China and Korea between April 25, 1904 and May 1, 1904.
- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoFights of nations
Variant title in Biograph photo catalog, v. 7: Fight of nations H90564 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 18Feb1907; H90564. Biograph production no. 3272. Paper print shelf number (LC 2412) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed. Additional holdings...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1907
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Film, VideoThe sculptor's nightmare At a political club, the members debate whose bust will replace that of Theodore Roosevelt. Unable to agree, each goes to a sculptor's studio and bribes him to sculpt a bust of...
- Contributor: Bitzer, G. W. - O'Sullivan, Tony - Griffith, D. W. (David Wark) - Solter, Harry L. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Sennett, Mack - Dillon, Edward - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - McCutcheon, Wallace
- Date: 1908
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Film, VideoBoat 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...- 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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Film, VideoLatina, dislocation act Opens with a repeat of the last scene in "Latina, contortionist." In a medium shot from the bust up, Latina faces the camera and interlaces her fingers with her arms held out...
- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Latina - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1905
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Film, VideoOver 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...- 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
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Film, VideoSwimming pool, Palm Beach
Title from AFI catalog: film beginnings, 1893-1910: In the swimming pool, Palms Beach, Fla | Title from Kleine Optical Company catalog: Diving in the swimming pool at Palm Beach, Fla "The film, photographed from a single-camera position, shows a swimming pool with a white building on the far side. Several persons in bathing suits dive into the water from a springboard, as...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1905
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Film, VideoAutomobile race for the Vanderbilt Cup
Variant title from Biograph production logs: International auto race--Vanderbilt Cup | Variant title from Biograph photo catalog v. 6: Internat'l automobile race for the Vanderbilt Cup | Variant title from the AFI catalog: film beginnings, 1893-1910: International automobile race for the Vanderbilt Cup | Variant title from Biograph bulletins, 1896-1908, p. 225: Great international automobile race for the Vanderbilt Cup | Variant title from Biograph bulletins, 1896-1908, p. 257: Vanderbilt Cup races "By special arrangement with the committee of the Automobile Club of America, we were given preferred positions at three different points on the course during the automobile race for the Vanderbilt Cup....- Contributor: Weed, A. E. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoSteam whistle, Westinghouse works
Variant title: Westinghouse works | Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 1 | Westinghouse works | Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 1 A closeup of the steam whistle blowing at the "Westinghouse works" complex of factories in Pennsylvania, probably at the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoThe lost child
Former title: Unidentified Masson | Inventory title: Masson reel no. 6 A woman brings a small boy into the backyard of a house in the suburbs. She puts him on the ground to play and returns later to find him missing. Unaware that...- Contributor: Bitzer, G. W. - McCutcheon, Wallace - Osterman, Kathryn - Afi/Masson (Daniel J.) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoRock drill at work in subway
Title in Biograph production log: Rock drills at work on subway | Title in Biograph photo catalog: Rock drills in subway | Title in Biograph bulletins 1896-1908: In the New York subway "Men appear to be operating a large steam drill to excavate an area approximately fifty feet deep and a hundred yards wide"--Early motion pictures.- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903
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Film, VideoStealing a dinner
Title in Biograph production log: Stealing a dinner by dogs A man sits at the dinner table, with a row of dogs behind him and a black dog sitting near the table in the foreground. When the master rings a bell for...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Arniotis, Leonidas - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903
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Film, VideoThe Brooklyn Handicap-1904
Variant title from Biograph production logs: Running of the Brooklyn Handicap, 1904 "This is in every respect one of the most interesting horse race pictures ever made. Our photographers had the advantage of a clear day, and the race was one of the greatest...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoA 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...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1905
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Film, VideoPeace envoys at Portsmouth, N.H.
Peace envoys at Portsmouth, New Hampshire | Biograph production log title: Japanese-Russian peace envoys | Peace envoys at Portsmouth, N.J. The Japanese and Russian peace envoys arrive at Portsmouth N.H., the Japanese delegation aboard the U.S.S. Dolphin, and the Russian delegation aboard the U.S.S. Mayflower. The Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse is visible in...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1905
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Film, VideoDeparture of Peary [and the] "Roosevelt" from New York
Departure of Peary [and] Roosevelt from New York | Departure of Peary for the North Pole The camera pans to show the schooner "Roosevelt" docked at a covered pier on the Hudson River on Manhattan's west side. Then, from a camera position on board, men in straw hats...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Film, VideoBetsy Ross dance
Title in Biograph photo catalog, v. 5: Betsey Ross dance | Title in Biograph production log: Betsy Ross dance (Little Anita) Opens on a bare stage with a painted backdrop of an interior theater wall and pillar. From screen right, a woman in a short, ruffled dress and sash, tights, and ballet slippers,...- Contributor: Bitzer, G. W. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Little Anita - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903
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Film, VideoJudge Alton B. Parker & Mayor McClellan at Esopus
Judge Alton B. Parker and Mayor McClellan at Esopus | Copyright title: Judge Alton B. Parker and guests | Judge Alton B. Parker & guests From three camera positions, the Democratic presidential candidate, Judge Parker, bids farewell on the wharf at Esopus to Mayor McClellan and other important Democrats. Judge Parker was nominated at the Democratic National...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoN.Y. Fire Department returning
New York Fire Department returning | Return of the fire departmant | Return of N.Y. Fire Dept Shows several pieces of horse-drawn fire vehicles in motion: two hook-and-ladders [Frame: 0114, 0905]; two steam pumpers [0373, 1111]; a rescue wagon [0549]. Children hang onto the back of some of the...- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903-01-01
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Film, VideoArrival 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...- 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
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Film, VideoPanorama of Machine Co. aisle, Westinghouse Co. works
Variant title: Westinghouse works | Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 | Variant title: Panorama of Machine Co. aisle, Westinghouse works | Westinghouse works | Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 | Panorama of Machine Co. aisle, Westinghouse works A camera on an overhead crane travels down a large, long aisle where men are shown working on large machinery on either side. Carts carrying equipment are shown traveling on rails down...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoA frontier flirtation
Title from Biograph bulletins, 1896-1908: Frontier flirtation, or, How the tenderfoot won out | How the tenderfoot won out Opens on a stage with a painted backdrop of a forest or garden. On a park bench center stage sits a well-dressed woman with a dark veil obscuring her face, holding an...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903
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Film, VideoAuto boat race on the Hudson "The new-fangled high-speed launches which are now the fad of sporting millionaires make an admirable subject for the moving picture camera, and this film shows the best of them in a race...
- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoPres. Roosevelt's Fourth of July oration
President Roosevelt's Fourth of July oration | President Roosevelt's 4th of July oration | Pres. Roosevelt's 4th of July oration President Theodore Roosevelt eats and then speaks to a crowd who have gathered to hear him. From another camera position, the crowd bids him farewell as Roosevelt and his party enter a...- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903
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Film, VideoCoil winding machines, Westinghouse works
Variant title: Westinghouse works | Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 1 | Westinghouse works | Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 1 Numerous women stand in rows at winding machines, taking material from large spools behind them. A male supervisor walks down the aisle, checking the work of the women.- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoWrestling at the N. Y. A. C.
Title in Early motion pictures: Wrestling at the New York Athletic Club | Wrestling at the N.Y.A.C. "Several teams of wrestlers in action were photographed from a single-camera position on the set of the gymnasium of the New York Athletic Club"--Early motion pictures.- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1905
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Film, VideoPanorama 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...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoWelding the big ring
Title in Biograph photo catalog, v. 6 and Biograph Co. prod. records: Welding big ring | Variant title: Westinghouse works | Welding big ring | Westinghouse works A group of men weld one area of a large ring in a fire. They lift the ring, which is hanging horizontally on chains, out of the fire. Four men hammer the...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoPennsylvania Tunnel excavation This film employs a 180-degree pan shot of the excavation site of New York's Pennsylvania Station, and includes shots of the narrow-gauge train used to haul debris from the tunnels under construction....
- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1905-01-01