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poster Searching Ruins on Broadway, Galveston, for Dead Bodies
Searching Ruins on Broadway, Galveston, for Dead Bodies
1mn - Documentary
This shows the heart of one of the tremendous drifts in the east end of Galveston. Hundreds of dead bodies are concealed in these immense masses, and at the time the picture was taken the odor given out c…
poster Sioux Ghost Dance
Sioux Ghost Dance
(2.6/5)
1mn - Documentary, Western
From Edison films catalog: One of the most peculiar customs of the Sioux Tribe is here shown, the dancers being genuine Sioux Indians, in full war paint and war costumes. 40 feet. 7.50. According to Ediso…
poster Babies Rolling Eggs
Babies Rolling Eggs
1mn - Documentary
The Washington Star of April 1st, 1900, gave the following account of the ceremony: "Over 40,000 women and children passed through the White House Gates to-day during the hours set apart for the great Nat…
poster London's Trafalgar Square
London's Trafalgar Square
1mn - Documentary
Moving picture of London's Trafalgar Square traffic, filmed with a kinesigraph.
poster Monkeyshines, No. 1
Monkeyshines, No. 1
1mn - Documentary
Experimental film made to test the original cylinder format of the Kinetoscope and believed to be the first film shot in the United States. It shows a blurry figure in white standing in one place making l…
poster Men Boxing
Men Boxing
1mn - Documentary
Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.
poster Move On
Move On
2mn - Documentary
In certain sections of New York City large numbers of Jewish and Italian push-cart vendors congregate so closely along the sidewalks that they interfere with traffic. Policemen keep them moving. The pictu…
poster Newark Athlete
Newark Athlete
1mn - Documentary
Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.
poster The River
The River
(3.2/5)
31mn - Documentary
This short Depression-era documentary describes the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States and laments the environmental destruction committed in the name of progress, particularly farmi…
poster Saved from the Titanic
Saved from the Titanic
(3.5/5)
10mn - Documentary
A young woman tells her parents and fiance (in flashback) about the recent sinking of the Titanic and her experiences as a passenger during the disaster. Her intended marriage now faces a new hazard becau…
poster Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
(2.7/5)
1mn - Documentary
James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney meet in a boxing exhibition.
poster Horse Shoeing
Horse Shoeing
1mn - Documentary, Drama
One of the pictures to be seen in the machine, for example, was that of a blacksmith shop in which two men were working, one shoeing a horse, the other heating iron at the forge. One would be seen to driv…
poster Leonard-Cushing Fight
Leonard-Cushing Fight
1mn - Documentary
In the background, five fans lean on the ropes looking into the ring. The referee is to the left; like the fans, he hardly moves as two fighters swing roundhouse blows at each other. Mike Leonard, in whit…
poster Ballet Mécanique
Ballet Mécanique
19mn - Documentary, Fantasy
Ballet Mécanique is a Dadaist, post-Cubist art film conceived, written, and co-directed by the artist Fernand Léger in collaboration with the filmmaker Dudley Murphy. It has a musical score by the America…
poster Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge
Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge
1mn - Documentary
A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriages crossing Leeds Bridge.
poster Bucking Broncho
Bucking Broncho
1mn - Documentary, Western
Lee Martin, one of the cowboy stars in 'Buffalo Bill's Wild West', rides a bronco as a crowd looks on. While the horse is trying to throw Martin off its back, another cowboy stands on top of a fence rail …
poster A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire
A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire
(3.5/5)
12mn - Documentary
A Trip Down Market Street is a 13-minute actuality film recorded by placing a movie camera on the front of a cable car as it travels down San Francisco’s Market Street. A virtual time capsule from over 10…
poster Preservation of the Sign Language
Preservation of the Sign Language
14mn - Documentary
George Veditz, one-time president of the National Association of the Deaf of the United States, outlines the right of deaf people to sign instead of speak. The film is presented in American Sign Language …
poster The Martyred Presidents
The Martyred Presidents
1mn - Documentary, History
This film is difficult to classify. It opens on a scene showing a mourner with bowed head sitting in front of what appears to be a tombstone. Shortly afterwards, the face of Abraham Lincoln and then of tw…
poster Laura Comstock's Bag-Punching Dog
Laura Comstock's Bag-Punching Dog
2mn - Documentary
This wonderful dog "Mannie," owned by the vaudeville star, Miss Laura Comstock, is a most learned animal. He has been trained to perform all sorts of tricks, and his intelligence is, perhaps, most marked …
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