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The dancing master is a dapper little fellow who has been engaged to instruct two pretty girls in some of the niceties of stage dancing. He becomes a little too demonstrative with one of the young girls and her mother takes him out by the ear.
Promotional film for color photography.
Military in action.
Panorama of Blackwell's Island
A number of boys are engaged in a tub race. They are lined up in a row, and the fun begins from the start. Some of the tubs upset and give the boys a good ducking each time an attempt is made to get in them.
What we basically have here is a one-minute film of a couple of men unloading sacks from a horse-drawn wagon...
In this short film, a white piece of wall bisects the screen; There are two different rooms on either side of the dividing line, but one hilarious payoff.
A young pastry cook is taking a cream cake to a customer, but on the way he places his basket on a seat to have a game of marbles with a telegraph boy. A chimney-sweep then comes and joins in the game. The telegraph boy having lost all, gives up the game, leaving his two partners, who are not long in starting a quarrel. In the meantime a policeman, who has been looking on, joins in the discussion, The little pastry cook who has not been having a good time, does not know how to defend himself, but suddenly an idea comes to him. He picks up the cake filled with cream and decides to crush it on the head of the sweep; but the latter, who has seen what was going to happen, stoops down, with the result that the policeman gets it full in the face.
An ignorant teacher beats a pupil and is caned by his new assistant.
Jesus is brought before him again, Pontius Pilate washes his hands to show that he has no responsibility in the death of this man and hands him over to the crowd.
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
It is unnecessary to describe this picture, as the story is well-known to both old and young. We tell the story just as it is written, and temperance lecturers will do well to buy one for the moral it teaches.
The Fate of the Artist's Model (1903) shows a young woman and her baby who are abandoned by her artist lover.
Showing six black French poodle pups jumping over a plank to get at their dinner and then eating voraciously.
Edwardian holidaymakers throng to the attractions at Lancashire's premier seaside resort.
First film in the series, showing a pretty girl exercising with chest weights.
Taken on the Lehigh Valley R. R., near Towanda, Pa., in a beautiful valley along the Susquehanna River. The train is seen approaching at a speed of seventy miles an hour. As it draws near, the engine whistle warns some section hands who are working in the foreground. Just as she passes another train dashes by in the opposite direction.
Edison summary: An up-to-date young lady, dressed in a neat white flannel bloomer suit, goes through her morning exercises of punching the bag, swinging Indian clubs and exercising with dumbbells.
A group of Jewish men in Ottoman Jerusalem perform a dance.
"Carl Neubronner with his Daughter Ilse" shows Julius Neubronner's son at play with his daughter. Lying on his back, Carl balances the child on his feet, then the child does a forward roll.
This film shows a mechanical ride in an amusement park, designed to allow customers to ride down an undulating incline astride wooden horses. Several groups of people are seen enjoying the ride down the incline.
Single shot panning across a landscape. Edison films, 1903.
Here, on Grand Trunk's main line between Canada and the US, one of Biograph's early production crews rode the pilot of a locomotive from Sarnia, Ontario to Port Huron, MI. The film features a view of the illuminated interior of Sarnia's St. Clair Tunnel and a lap dissolve which fades into the exit of the tunnel-- An impressive technique still in its infancy.
The USS Indiana stages a rescue operation of a crewman that's fallen overboard.
Three women in pajamas dance for the camera.
Several rowing boats with tourists going to the shore of Capri.
When the picture first appears, a bald-headed man is seen seated back of a table on which a number of cosmetics are lying. He has tried them all without success. He knocks on the table and a maid appears, bringing with her a box containing a number of bottles. In one of the bottles is a certain liquid, which, it is presumed, will grow hair on a bald head.
Peter Elfelt filming on a boat sailing in to harbor.
Yet another in a vast series of films made by American Mutoscope & Biograph for the United States Postal Service which demonstrated all aspects of the humble postman's job.
Another in a series of films made for the USPO in 1903, this short shows a small coach pulling up outside a rural post office. A man climbs out of the back of the carriage and unlocks the post box outside a ramshackle looking building under the watchful gaze of a small child.
We have just received from our operators accompanying President Roosevelt on his great tour of the Pacific Coast, a splendid series of films covering his reception in San Francisco.
First is shown a fine panoramic view of the grandstand at the Yale field, showing the enormous gathering of football enthusiasts who have come from far and near to witness the giants struggle for the collegiate championship.
This picture gives a good idea of how soon one of the New York fireboats can be gotten under way after they receive an alarm of fire...
Over a hundred Edwardian athletes gather for a gruelling walking race.
Bradford City's first ever home league game after switching from rugby league football to association football in 1903.
A Western cowboy attempts to flirt with a veiled young lady sitting on a bench in the garden.
Alphonse and Gaston are in a Western saloon and are forced to dance by a cowboy, who urges them on by shooting at their feet.
It's a very windy day, and the pedestrians passing by the Flatiron Building are having considerable difficulty in keeping their hats from flying off.
A country couple enters Coney Island's Steeplechase Park. They proceed to amuse themselves on the steeplechase, tightropes, plaza, mini-locomotive and chutes.
A thief jumps a fence and removes the shutter from a house. He enters, but a lad who's witnessed the crime runs off to hail the coppers. The first officer on the scene climbs the fence, enters the house, and is soon fighting with the thief on the roof. Falling from the roof, the officer is injured and requires an ambulance. Meanwhile, the thief flees, pursued by more men in blue.
From left to right, we see the heads of several well-known people performed by actor Henri Plessis.
A group of carriers leaving a building.
Mitchell & Kenyon 225. Part of BFI collection "Tales From the Shipyard".
As a study of a man at work (sorting through a large collection of mail - presumably cancelled judging by this short's title) this film pretty much achieves what it sets out to do.
Panorama of the port of Algiers.
Shows a young black boy and a white boy in a lively set-to. They finally collapse in the centre of the ring after they have fought themselves to a stand-still. The referee proceeds to count them both out, and the seconds empty buckets of water on the fighters.
Short scientific documentary, part of "The Unseen World" series.
A documentary film covering the Delhi Durbar held in 1903 to mark the coronation of King Edward VII. It includes footage of Lord Curzon, the then Viceroy of India, and is one of the earliest examples of Indian documentary filmmaking.
Two opium smokers in a bunk bed yank on each other's queues until the bunk crashes, sending them rolling about on the floor.
Kathryn Osterman breaks egg into a plate. As the content reaches the plate, it transforms into a baby chick. Action repeats twelve times through stop-action photography.
Before going to war with his neighbors, the King reviews his men. The Queen's Musketeer's, who number only young men, are proclaimed the best drilled and most skillful of his soldiers. These young men manoeuvre in front of the King, Queen and the Court, and perform the most difficult tactics. This subject will be much enjoyed and appreciated by any audience.
Taken from the front end of a locomotive following an express train at high speed around the high curves of the Ninth Avenue Elevated, from the 104th to 116th Street station. This section, with its reverse curve, is known as "The Big Loop", and is the highest (at over 100 feet) and most dangerous section on the New York Elevated. During the trip, Grant's Tomb, Columbia College buildings, the new Cathedral of St. John The Divine, and Morningside Park, as well as a portion of the north end of Central Park are visible.
Produced by Sociéte A. Lumière (1400)