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poster Coney Island at Night
Coney Island at Night
4mn - Documentary
A panorama of Coney Island, taken at night: the camera sweeps across the scene from a vantage point well above the area. It then moves in for closer views of Dreamland and Luna Park.
poster Manhatta
Manhatta
11mn - Documentary
Morning reveals New York harbor, the wharves, the Brooklyn Bridge. A ferry boat docks, disgorging its huddled mass. People move briskly along Wall St. or stroll more languorously through a cemetery. Ranks…
poster The Making of an American
The Making of an American
14mn -
Docudrama encouraging immigrants to master English and become successful, assimilated Americans.
poster The Island of the Lost
The Island of the Lost
78mn - Sci-Fi
The Island of the Lost (German: Die Insel der Verschollenen) is a 1921 German silent science fiction film . It is a loose unauthorized adaptation of the 1896 novel The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wel…
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 My Boy
My Boy
(3.1/5)
55mn - Comedy, Drama
An orphan escapes immigration officials at Ellis Island and goes to live with an old ship's master who can't find work and can't pay the rent.
poster New Brooklyn to New York via Brooklyn Bridge, No. 2
New Brooklyn to New York via Brooklyn Bridge, No. 2
2mn - Documentary
“This is a new negative showing the entire trip from Brooklyn to New York, in which the immense towers stand out clear and distinct against the sky. Positively the best picture of the Brooklyn Bridge yet …
poster Lights of New York
Lights of New York
(2.9/5)
57mn - Crime, Drama
Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.
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 Little Old New York
Little Old New York
(3.2/5)
107mn - Comedy, Romance
An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.
poster Children in the Surf at Coney Island
Children in the Surf at Coney Island
4mn - Documentary
"Children in the Surf, Coney Island" is a very short documentary with Billy Bitzer behind the camera.
poster The Italian
The Italian
(3.3/5)
78mn - Drama
An immigrant leaves his sweetheart in Italy to find a better life across the sea in the grimy slums of New York.
poster Children Digging for Clams
Children Digging for Clams
(2.8/5)
1mn - Documentary
Children dig for clams on the beach
poster The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon
The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon
(2.9/5)
1mn - Documentary
Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.
poster His Picture in the Papers
His Picture in the Papers
(3.0/5)
62mn - Comedy
Produced at the Reliance studio in Yonkers, New York, HIS PICTURE IN THE PAPERS solidly established Fairbanks as the American ideal of pop, vim, and vigor. Furthermore, the film brought him together with …
poster By Right of Birth
By Right of Birth
4mn - Drama
Based on a story told by George Johnson, featuring Booker T. Washington. Only four minutes survive.
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 New York, Broadway
New York, Broadway
(3.0/5)
1mn - Documentary
A short black and white film in which a fixed camera records a busy New York street, Broadway.
poster Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin
(2.6/5)
19mn - Drama
Based on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe: Eliza, a slave who has a young child, pleads with Tom, another slave, to escape with her. Tom does not leave, but Eliza flees with her child. After getting som…
poster Captured in Chinatown
Captured in Chinatown
54mn - Mystery, Crime
A feud between two gangs in Chinatown breaks out into a tong war.
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