Welding 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 hot area on the ring into shape while the remaining men hold the ring. They put the ring into the fire again, take it out, and take it over to a machine…
Contributor:
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Bitzer, G. W.
Date:1904
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 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
Film, Video
[Sigmund Freud at Grundlsee, Austria and Pötzleinsdorf, Vienna, Austria--home movies]
Former supplied title: Freud, Sigmund at Pötzleinsdorf, Vienna, Austria | Variant title: Sigmund Freud--home movies
Compilation of various films. It opens with separate scenes of Sigmund and Martha Freud standing on a balcony or terrace overlooking the lake in Grundlsee, Austria, in late summer 1930. They are joined by Paulette Laforgue, the wife of René Laforgue. In another scene Anna Freud is shown standing by the lake at Grundlsee. Other scenes depict French psychoanalyst Jean Frois-Wittmann; Paulette and René…
Date:1930
Film, Video
A romance of the rail
"A series of railroad scenes of novel and amusing interest. It opens with a view of an imposing station showing a pretty girl, dressed in white, seated on a trunk awaiting the arrival of her train. A young man approaches, also dressed in white, and the two immediately fall in love. The Lackawanna Limited then rolls into the station and the Pullman porter helps…
Contributor:
Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Murray, Marie - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
Date:1903
Film, Video
Columbia" winning the Cup
Variant title from Internet movie database: Columbia crossing the line in the third race and winning
"The decisive moment in the great International Yacht Races is shown in this picture. Against a background of well defined clouds, the light boat is seen marking the finishing line in this great aquatic struggle. As the Columbia crosses the line, followed closely by the Shamrock, we see the steam from the whistle of the light ship announcing the well earned victory of the…
Contributor:
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1901
Film, Video
Fireboat "New Yorker" in action
Erroneous title: Fireboat "New Yorker" in action--excerpts
A demonstration by the famous fireboat "New Yorker." The picture shows the fireboat with all its nozzles spurting water as it goes back and forth in front of the camera. Put in service on February 1, 1891 as Engine Company 57, the "New Yorker" was stationed at the Battery near Castle Garden, where her crew lived aboard. She was 125 feet long, 25 feet…
Contributor:
Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, James Blair
Date:1903
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
Film, Video
Muggsy becomes a hero
Mabel sends a note to Muggsy asking him to meet her after church. While he is waiting for the services to end, another note is handed to him, requesting him to escort the Frost sisters through a bad area. Though Muggsy is disappointed not to be with Mabel, he resolutely starts to escort the two women home. They are set upon by two thugs…
Contributor:
August, Edwin - Dillon, Edward - Bruce, Kate - Sennett, Mack - Grandon, Francis J. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Biograph Company - Paget, Alfred - Pickford, Mary - McDowell, Clare ...
August, Edwin - Dillon, Edward - Bruce, Kate - Sennett, Mack - Grandon, Francis J. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Biograph Company - Paget, Alfred - Pickford, Mary - McDowell, Clare - Craig, Charles B. - Butler, William J. - Quirk, Billy - Henderson, Dell - Henderson, Grace - Powell, Frank E. - Pickford, Jack - Taylor, Stanner E. V. - O'Sullivan, Tony
Date:1910
Film, Video
New York City in a blizzard
"A realistic panoramic view taken at Madison Square, New York City, on February 17, 1902. A portion of the New York Fire Department is seen trying to make their way to a fire through the immense snow drifts. A few pedestrians are bravely plodding through the immense piles of snow, and a snow plow is hard at work on the Broadway, underground trolley line,…
Contributor:
Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1902
Film, Video
Vizcaya" under full headway
Title in American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue: Spanish battleship "Viscaya"
"A splendid picture of the pride of the Spanish navy, taken on the occasion of her visit to New York Harbor, when her captain hinted at his ability to blow holes through New York's skyscrapers. In this picture the vessel makes a very beautiful appearance steaming out to sea under full headway. But what a contrast to a later Biograph picture when the vessel…
Contributor:
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope Company - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1898
Film, Video
Roosevelt's Rough Riders
Shooting title in Biograph production log: Roosevelt's Rough Riders at drill
"A charge full of cowboy enthusiasm by Troop "I," the famous regiment, at Tampa, before its departure for the front"--American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue.
Contributor:
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope Company - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1898
Film, Video
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:
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Armitage, F. S. - American Mutoscope Company
Date:1898
Film, Video
Morning colors on U.S. cruiser "Raleigh"
"Shows a group of sailors and an officer at the stern. The flag runs out in a ball to the end of the staff, and, at the signal, is broken. Proudly the Stars and Stripes wave in the morning breeze, while the officer salutes. A very pretty picture of man-o-war life"--The Phonoscope, June 1899, p. 17.
Contributor:
Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
Date:1899
Film, Video
U.S. cruiser "Olympia" leading naval parade
United States cruiser "Olympia" leading naval parade | US cruiser "Olympia" leading naval parade | Variant title from Edison motion pictures, 1890-1900: U. S. cruiser "Olympia" firing salute
"We equipped eight parties on the occasion of Admiral Dewey's arrival in New York Harbor, Wednesday, September 27th, 1899, and secured the following excellent moving pictures of the Admiral and his great ship, together with the stirring events of Dewey Day, September 29th, the day of the Naval Parade"--Edison films catalog. The "Olympia", at the head of Admiral Dewey's naval parade steams up the…
Contributor:
Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
Date:1899
Film, Video
Launch of surf boat
Title in Edison films catalog, no. 105: Launching the surf boat | Variant title from Edison motion pictures 1890-1900: Launching of surf boat | Launch of a surf boat
"The crew of seven dressed in cork jackets, push the boat through the surf; they clamber in and row out to the wreck. 50 ft."--Edison films catalog. "Pacific Coast Life Saving Service series: These subjects are illustrative of the work performed by the Life Saving Corps of the United States Government, and show the methods in vogue at one of the most important stations…
Contributor:
United States. Life-Saving Service - Fort Point Life-Saving Station (U.S.) - White, James H. (James Henry) - Blechynden, Frederick - United States. Revenue-Cutter Service - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1897
Film, Video
Panorama from the moving boardwalk
Title in Edison films catalog: Panoramic view from the moving sidewalk | Variant title in Edison motion pictures, 1890-1900: Panoramic view from the moving sidewalk at the Paris Exposition | Variant title in Edison motion pictures, 1890-1900: Moving sidewalk, no. 2
"The camera is stationed on the middle walk of the Platform Mobile, as the French call it, and gives further views and incidents of this Paris Exposition novelty. 100 feet"--Edison films catalog.
Contributor:
Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry) - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1900
Film, Video
[Lakota Grass Dance]
Title from Edison motion pictures 1890-1900: Sioux Ghost Dance | Title from Edison films catalog: Ghost dance
Eleven dancers, including two boys (Johnny Burke No Neck, Seven Up) stand with their feet still, but their bodies swaying slightly. In the upper left corner, a mallet belonging to a drummer whose body is cut off by the frame begins to beat a hide drum, first with two slow beats and then more rapidly. Staring directly at the spectator, the boy on the…
Contributor:
Heise, William - No Neck, Johnny Burke - Last Horse - Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie) - Seven up - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Hendricks (Gordon) Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1894
Film, Video
Lost a pretty little dog
Original French title: Cent francs à qui rapportera | Alternate English language title: Lost, a pretty dog | Former supplied title: Unidentified John Jones
A woman and her mother bring a little dog home from a dog shelter in Gennevilliers. The woman's husband comes home, is displeased, and pays a man to steal the dog. The woman is distraught and offers a reward for the return of the dog. The man who stole the dog returns it and receives the reward, just as the husband comes home. The…
A study in reds
"While listening to a tedious lecture on the Soviet threat, Wisconsin Dells' Tuesday Club members fall asleep and find themselves laboring in an all-women collective in Russia under the unflinching eye of the Soviet special police."--Library of Congress WWW site.
Troops at evacuation of Havana
Title in Edison films catalog: U.S. troops at evacuation of Havana | Variant title: United States troops at evacuation of Havana
"The troops are turning into the Prado from a side street, where stands a triumphal arch erected by the Cubans, but which Gen. Brooke, the Military Governor of Cuba, would not permit to be finished, as he allowed no demonstrations of any kind. The soldiers are the First Texas troops. The streets are crowded with people. Many typical Cubans are seen lounging in the…
Contributor:
Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
Date:1899
Film, Video
Sampson-Schley controversy. [Part 3]
Copyright title: Sampson and Schley controversy--tea party | Sampson-Schley controversy--tea party | Sampson and Schley controversy | Sampson and Schley controversy--tea party
"This subject is in three scenes, showing beautiful dissolving effects. Scene 1 shows Admiral Schley upon the bridge of the Brooklyn commanding the American Fleet in Santiago Harbor. The Spanish fleet is seen to emerge from Santiago Harbor. Simultaneously ships and forts open fire on the American fleet. Scene 2. The Man Behind the Gun. The gun crews are seen manipulating a 13-inch gun…
Contributor:
Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S. - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1901
Film, Video
The light that came
Grace, a disfigured young woman with two beautiful sisters, Vivian and Daisy, falls in love with Carl Wagner, a blind violinist, and they become engaged. Though she fears losing his love when he sees the scar on her face, Daisy pays for the surgery that restores Carl's sight. After his vision is restored, Vivian and Daisy both vie for Carl's attention, but to no…
Contributor:
Bruce, Kate - Sennett, Mack - Grandon, Francis J. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Moore, Owen - Pickford, Mary - Kirkwood, James - Robinson, Gertrude ...
Bruce, Kate - Sennett, Mack - Grandon, Francis J. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Moore, Owen - Pickford, Mary - Kirkwood, James - Robinson, Gertrude - West, Dorothy - Griffith, D. W. (David Wark) - Leonard, Marion - Hedlund, Guy - Quirk, Billy - Hart, Ruth - Nichols, George - Evans, Frank - Powell, Frank E. - O'Sullivan, Tony
Date:1909
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:
Futter, Walter - Roosevelt Memorial Association - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:191?
Film, Video
Foxy Grandpa and Polly in a little hilarity
Shooting title in Biograph Co. prod. records [MI]: Grandpa & Polly in a little hilarity (dance)
Opens on a stage with a stone fence and a painted backdrop of a forest or garden. Husband and wife team of Hart and DeMar as cartoon characters Foxy Grandpa and Polly enter hand-in-hand from behind the fence. Grandpa has a bald pate with bushy white hair on the sides, a big bulbous nose, and a potbelly, dressed in a light-colored suit with a…
Contributor:
Bonine, R. (Robert K.) - Brady, William A. - Hart, Joseph - Bunny - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Demar, Carrie
Date:1902
Film, Video
Buffalo stockyards
Title in Edison films catalog: Buffalo stock yards
"A long line of horses, mules and ponies are led, driven and ridden into the yards, where they are sold and distributed"--Edison films catalog.
Contributor:
Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Heise, William - White, James H. (James Henry)
Film, VideoWelding the big ring
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 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…
Film, Video[Sigmund Freud at Grundlsee, Austria and Pötzleinsdorf, Vienna, Austria--home movies]
Film, VideoA romance of the rail "A series of railroad scenes of novel and amusing interest. It opens with a view of an imposing station showing a pretty girl, dressed in white, seated on a trunk awaiting the arrival of her train. A young man approaches, also dressed in white, and the two immediately fall in love. The Lackawanna Limited then rolls into the station and the Pullman porter helps…
Film, VideoColumbia" winning the Cup
Film, VideoFireboat "New Yorker" in action
Film, VideoPanorama water front and Brooklyn Bridge from East River
Film, VideoMuggsy becomes a hero Mabel sends a note to Muggsy asking him to meet her after church. While he is waiting for the services to end, another note is handed to him, requesting him to escort the Frost sisters through a bad area. Though Muggsy is disappointed not to be with Mabel, he resolutely starts to escort the two women home. They are set upon by two thugs…
Film, VideoNew York City in a blizzard "A realistic panoramic view taken at Madison Square, New York City, on February 17, 1902. A portion of the New York Fire Department is seen trying to make their way to a fire through the immense snow drifts. A few pedestrians are bravely plodding through the immense piles of snow, and a snow plow is hard at work on the Broadway, underground trolley line,…
Film, VideoVizcaya" under full headway
Film, VideoRoosevelt's Rough Riders
Film, Video71st Regiment, Camp Wyckoff
Film, VideoMorning colors on U.S. cruiser "Raleigh" "Shows a group of sailors and an officer at the stern. The flag runs out in a ball to the end of the staff, and, at the signal, is broken. Proudly the Stars and Stripes wave in the morning breeze, while the officer salutes. A very pretty picture of man-o-war life"--The Phonoscope, June 1899, p. 17.
Film, VideoU.S. cruiser "Olympia" leading naval parade
Film, VideoLaunch of surf boat
Film, VideoPanorama from the moving boardwalk
Film, Video[Lakota Grass Dance]
Film, VideoLost a pretty little dog
Film, VideoA study in reds "While listening to a tedious lecture on the Soviet threat, Wisconsin Dells' Tuesday Club members fall asleep and find themselves laboring in an all-women collective in Russia under the unflinching eye of the Soviet special police."--Library of Congress WWW site.
Film, VideoTroops at evacuation of Havana
Film, VideoSampson-Schley controversy. [Part 3]
Film, VideoThe light that came Grace, a disfigured young woman with two beautiful sisters, Vivian and Daisy, falls in love with Carl Wagner, a blind violinist, and they become engaged. Though she fears losing his love when he sees the scar on her face, Daisy pays for the surgery that restores Carl's sight. After his vision is restored, Vivian and Daisy both vie for Carl's attention, but to no…
Film, VideoCount 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.
Film, VideoFoxy Grandpa and Polly in a little hilarity
Film, VideoBuffalo stockyards