Newsreel footage of an execution by beheading of Li-Tang, the Chinches chief of a band of Manchurian bandits. Shot during the Russo Japanese war by...
Execution of Li-Tang the Chunchus Chief of the Manchurian Bandits
A small group of men turn on what appears to be a generator. As the rotary spins, the men make adjustments to the machine and check its operations.
Testing a Rotary
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!
Two black men are stealing chickens and get chased by the white farmers.
The Chicken Thief
Billy Bitzer filmed 21 short actualities inside the Pittsburgh Westinghouse Works in April and May of 1904. Audiences of the day would have been...
Westinghouse Works
A performing magician divides into two people. The doubles then take turns doing tricks before merging back into one man.
A Wager Between Two Magicians, or, Jealous of Myself
A woman is hanging out wash on a roof. Below the edge of the roof, a man peers up at her while painting the eaves. The director, in order to add zest...
A Windy Day on the Roof
An aged villager, reminded of his boyhood days in the church choir by the sound of the bells, totters to the church door and begs the vicar to allow...
The Old Chorister
A large bucket is lowered into a pit by male workers using machinery. Molten material from a furnace is poured into the bucket using a slide. The...
Tapping a Furnace
It's one on those thingies you see at amusement parks. You get into a small gondola, the machine starts whirling about, and centrifugal force lifts...
Sir Hiram Maxim's Captive Flying Machines
A parade by denizens of one of the Oriental Concessions, The Pike, St. Louis.
Parade of Characters (Asia in America) St. Louis Exposition
[A]n excerpt from the novel by a chap named Marchmont in which the hero, a fellow with the heroic name of Hamylton Tregethner attempts to dissuade a...
Duel Scene, "By Right of Sword"
This short, otherwise unremarkable feature is of some interest because of the way that it unabashedly caters to the tastes that it perceived in its...
A Fire in a Burlesque Theatre
Rows of women are shown at tables with winding machines. They wind using material from spools behind them, apparently putting the finished products...
Coil Winding Section E
To film this event, the camera was placed inside the rail, on the track surface itself. As the film begins, in the foreground a gate opens and a...
The Brooklyn Handicap, 1904
A couple of Sunday school teachers invite Chinese laundry workers to their session. In return the Chinese invite them to an opium den, where the...
The Heathen Chinese and the Sunday School Teachers
A Japanese juggler performs some marvelous juggling feats with a boy. Lying on his back on the floor, he spins the boy with his feet and makes him...
Japanese Acrobats
Police try to break up a gang that is manufacturing counterfeit coins.
Raid on a Coiner's Den
An office boy at Biograph learns how to operate a camera, and when he spies the boss kissing his secretary, he records their illicit act.
The Story the Biograph Told
Early commercial film for Daniel Dalsgaards Kaffeforretning.
Daniel Dalsgaards Kaffeforretning
A corset maker -- for those of you who don't know what that it, it was a tight of highly reinforced girdle which gave the wearer an 'hourglass'...
The Way to Sell Corsets
Two children, a boy and a girl, blow bubbles.
Soap Bubbles
