Movies

The Glenroy Brothers perform a portion of their vaudeville act, "The Comic View of Boxing: The Tramp & the Athlete", which depicts a boxer with a...

Thomas Edison's machinist, Fred Ott, holds a bird in his hand.

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

Miners at the Solvay Quarries leave their drilling machine to flee from a planned blast in the rock face. Split Rock, NY.

"Said to be the Champion High Kicker of the World."

Taken in 1896 on the Boulevard (upper Broadway) on the occasion of a bicycle parade in the heyday of the wheeling craze. Old-fashioned horse cars...

A remix of Dickson's Annabelle Butterfly Dance with a modern score.

A hand-colored ride along the Bangor-Conwy-Colwyn Bay railroad filmed from an express train from the London and North Western Railway; Stations,...

Queen Wilhelmina arrives to the palace during her coronation.

Signalling from a British trench during the Boer war.

Experimental film made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film. Film...

The boulevard in front of the Kurhaus, with pedestrians and a terrace.

Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs her popular serpentine dance routine. She twirls around, and as she does so, she uses her long skirts to create a...

Young people dance the Tarantella

Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.

Sailors practice rescuing someone who's fallen overboard.

Film by W.K.L. Dickson; Rounding a bend in the track, we behold Windsor Castle.

A British Mutoscope & Biograph production.

Former lightweight boxer Billy Edwards, now a trainer and writer of the sport, takes on a challenger named Warwick in an exhibition match. The match...