Contributor:
Bernheimer, Andrew - Bruegmann, Robert - Mori, Toshiko - Harris, Steven
Date:2018-10-26
Film, Video
Ragtime Dance: Standard Waltz
videorecording | 1 digital file. Duration: 0:39 | Reconstructed by Elizabeth Aldrich. Performed by Cheryl Stafford and Thomas Baird, dancers; Boris Gurevich, piano. Music: "Bink's Waltz" by Scott Joplin, Saint Louis: Bahnsen Music Co., 1905. See: p. 104-106 in Newman, A. Dances of to-day, (#122), Videorecording (Form). Videoreel (Form).
Film, Video
On a good old 5 [cent] trolley ride
[On] a [good old] five cent trolley ride | Five cent trolley ride
Amusing characters board an unsteady trolley at each stop, and then abandon the streetcar in order to chase a man who brought on board a basket full of snakes that got loose. A goose gets involved in the chase, and is stolen by a tramp.The chase ends when the crowd arrives at a stream that the tramp has already crossed, with the goose under...
Contributor:
Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S. - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
The sculptor's nightmare
At a political club, the members debate whose bust will replace that of Theodore Roosevelt. Unable to agree, each goes to a sculptor's studio and bribes him to sculpt a bust of the individual favorite. Instead, the sculptor spends their fees on a dinner with his model during which he becomes so inebriated that he is taken to jail. There he has a nightmare,...
Contributor:
Bitzer, G. W. - O'Sullivan, Tony - Griffith, D. W. (David Wark) - Solter, Harry L. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Sennett, Mack - Dillon, Edward - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - McCutcheon, Wallace
Date:1908
Film, Video
[Scenes from Mexico and the 1900 Paris Exposition]
Collection of Lumière films from the Cinémathèque française | Scènes du Mexique et de l'Exposition universelle de 1900 á Paris
French language translation title is supplied for the France in America project. On one reel/videocassette with 50 other Lumière shorts that were originally cataloged under individual titles in M/B/RS film and television preliminary card catalog. Danse espagnole...was filmed in Paris, France in 1900; Expérience du ballon dirigeable... was filmed in Saint-Cloud, France in 1900. All other films were filmed in Mexico City and Guadalajara,...
Contributor:
Exposition Universelle - Veyre, Gabriel - Société Anonyme Des Plaques Et Papiers Photographiques - Cinémathèque Française Collection (Library of Congress) - Santos-Dumont, Alberto - Díaz, Porfirio
President Roosevelt crossing the field
President Roosevelt at Army-Navy football game | President Roosevelt at the Army-Navy game | President Roosevelt at Army-Navy game | Pres. Roosevelt crossing field Navy-Army | President Roosevelt crossing field Navy-Army
President Roosevelt, accompanied by Secretary of War Root, Secretary of the Navy Long, and a number of others, crosses the football field during the half-time of the game.
Contributor:
Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Congdon, James - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1902
Film, Video
"Columbia" winning the Cup
Columbia crossing the line in the third race and winning
"The decisive moment in the great International Yacht Races is shown in this picture. Against a background of well defined clouds, the light boat is seen marking the finishing line in this great aquatic struggle. As the Columbia crosses the line, followed closely by the Shamrock, we see the steam from the whistle of the light ship announcing the well earned victory of the...
Contributor:
Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Edison, Thomas A. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Arrival of the Governor General, Lord Minto, at Quebec
Arrival of Governor General, Lord Minto at Quebec
"Quebec Winter Carnival series: This picture shows the Governor General, the Earl of Minto, accompanied by the Countess of Minto and their household, crossing the river in ice canoes. On the Quebec side the canoes find a solid ledge of ice projecting about 200 yards from the wharf, and over this the blanket clad snow shoers haul the Governor, his wife and guests. A...
Contributor:
Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Paley, William Daly
Little mischief
"Papa is reading his newspaper and his little girl tickles his neck with a long straw. Thinking it is a fly papa "shoos" away the supposed fly with his hand. The tickling continues now on the ear, and papa waves his newspaper around his head. Not yet content, the little mischief maker continues her fun, and the man loses all patience, and makes such...
Contributor:
Thomas A. Edison, Inc - American Vitagraph Company - Smith, Albert E. (Albert Edward) - Afi/Holt (H.L.) Collection (Library of Congress) - Blackton, James Stuart
