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A location actuality filmed in Philadelphia (May 27–28, 1904) documenting the Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association’s championships:...
Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association Championships
Footage of spectators at the Friedenau velodrome in Berlin, dating from 1904. Several spectators, including a woman, are standing in front of a...
Auf der Radrennbahn in Friedenau
The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentleman enters, and taking a blackboard from the side...
The Untamable Whiskers
1. Jaffa from the Sea. The Port of Jerusalem. 2. Through the Rocks and Surf. The Syrian boatmen shooting the narrows. 3. The Landing Stage. Showing...
Jaffa and Its Harbour
A high board fence is shown covered with theatrical posters. The one in the center shows the head and shoulders of a pretty girl. An old farmer and...
Kiss Me!
A cook has his hands full with three mischievous devils, who pop in and out of his kitchen.
The Cook in Trouble
This film depicts the Biblical scenes when Joseph is sold by his brothers and taken to Egypt, where he finally landed in jail. He explains to his...
Joseph Sold by his Brothers
1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.
Descent of Deep Snow Drift
A magician and some assistants put up a series of posters of music hall acts in a frame. Then the magician brings each poster to life.
Barnum's Trunk
The heir of a rich family puts up a notice, where he says he is looking for a wife. As a result, he will soon find himself fleeing from a dozen women.
The Gallants of the Park
This series of tableaux-style vignettes taken from the much-storied life of France’s Louis XIV includes “Musketeers Fight”,...
Reign of Louis XIV
Attending trotting matches - in which horses in harness race at specific gaits - was a popular Edwardian pastime.
Trotting Match at Springfield Park, Wigan
Sights in Constantinople
As a mother enters a store, she leaves her child outside in a carriage. Another woman standing nearby quickly snatches the child out of the carriage....
The Kidnapped Child
With a tree-lined river bank dominating the top and back of the frame, the Charles River flows toward a stationary camera. A flotilla of canoes...
Canoeing on the Charles River, Boston, Mass.
The scene represents the shop that rents garments for masquerades, A young student presents himself for the purpose of selecting a costume for a...
The Animated Costumes
An inquisitor and two of his henchmen burn a woman at the stake. An angel intervenes.
A Miracle Under the Inquisition
"Children in the Surf, Coney Island" is a very short documentary with Billy Bitzer behind the camera.
Children in the Surf at Coney Island
A staged crash between two outmoded locomotives given to the Edison Co. by the Pennsylvania Railroad for the express purpose of destroying them.
Railroad Smashup
Close Call: Dangerous Climbing