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1904
The Ex-Convict
A recently-released convict attempts to do right but struggles to support his wife and ail…
1904
The Great Train Robbery
A remake of Edwin S. Porter's film of the same title.
1904
The Heathen Chinese and the Sunday School Teachers
A couple of Sunday school teachers invite Chinese laundry workers to their session. In ret…
1904
The Hero of Liao-Yang
Several Japanese youths are playing various games and enjoying some refreshments outdoors…
The Kiddies and the Rabbits
Kids playing with rabbits.
The Lost Child
A woman and her guests frantically search for her missing child, who is eventually found p…
1904
The Moonshiner
A mountaineer loads a shipment of moonshine whiskey onto his horse-cart, then goes to make…
The Opening the Williamsburg Bridge
A view of the opening ceromonies for New York's Williamsburg Bridge.
The Slocum Disaster
Several shots of the events after the disaster of steamboat PS General Slocum.
1904
The Story the Biograph Told
An office boy at Biograph learns how to operate a camera, and when he spies the boss kissi…
1904
The Strenuous Life; or, Anti-Race Suicide
A married couple faces the demands of what Theodore Roosevelt called 'the strenuous life'.
The Suburbanite
A family moves out to the 'peaceful' suburbs where everything goes wrong, including the mo…
The Swimming Class
It is obvious that the cameraman placed his equipment close to the edge of a seashore. A l…
1904
The Trade Guilds' Parade
Trade Guilds' Parade at Christiansborg Ridebane in 1904.
The Waif; or, Out in the Street
A poor woman abandons her younger baby on the steps of a rich couple's house. She returns…
1904
The Way to Sell Corsets
A corset maker -- for those of you who don't know what that it, it was a tight of highly r…
The Widow and the Only Man
Only women are at a resort, until one man arrives. He woos a pretty young widow, and wins…
Tracked by Bloodhounds; or, A Lynching at Cripple Creek
A tramp kills a generous woman. In revenge, her husband tracks down and lynches the tramp.
Treloar and Miss Marshall, Prize Winners at the Physical Culture Show in Madison Square Garden
Opens with a woman posing on a pedestal, dressed in a white body leotard with a sash tied…
1904
Troubles of a Manager of a Burlesque Show
Facing a stationary camera, sitting at a desk, a man works busily. Posters of burlesque qu…
Two Bottle Babies
A young girl tries to feed a puppy.
Typical Algerian 'Ouled Nails' Muslin Dance
Hand-painted short of a few people dancing.
Welding the Big Ring
A group of men weld one area of a large ring in a fire. They lift the ring, which is hangi…
Western Stage Coach Hold Up
A band of robbers are playing cards in the foreground of the picture. Suddenly one of the…
Westinghouse Air Brake Co.
A large group of men are shown performing various tasks in one room at the Westinghouse Ai…
1904
Westinghouse Air Brake Co. (Casting Scene)
What appear to be molds pass some men by on conveyor belts. The men take them off the belt…
Westinghouse Air Brake Co. (Moulding Scene)
Men working in teams carry buckets of molten material and pour the material into what appe…
1904
Westinghouse Employees, Westinghouse Works
Employees leaving Westinghouse Works .
Westinghouse Works
Billy Bitzer filmed 21 short actualities inside the Pittsburgh Westinghouse Works in April…
1905
2 A.M. in the Subway
A constable and a subway attendant are working late at night in an underground station whe…
A Ballroom Tragedy
A woman sneaks up behind a seated couple, stabs the woman in the back, and makes an escape…
A Dog Lost, Strayed, or Stolen. $25.00 Reward Apply to Mrs. Brown, 711 Park Ave.
A woman offers a reward for her missing dog and a huge number of claimants shows up.
A Kentucky Feud
A fictionalized account of the Hatfields and the McCoys.
1905
A Pipe Dream
A little man appears out of the smoke.
A Policeman's Love Affair
A policeman woos a cook for the free meals. When her employer discovers them, the policema…
A Trip to Salt Lake City
Made in 1905 when short films were still being done in just one shot (for the Kinetoscope…
1905
Across the Subway Viaduct, New York
A train ride of New York.
1905
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The millionaire's child is kidnapped. Sherlock Holmes after many thrilling adventures and…
1905
Airy Fairy Lillian Tries on Her New Corsets
An Execution by Hanging
Hangman brings criminal to gallows, places hood on head, priest prays.
Another uncontrollable arm
1905 actuality film, director unknown, preserved by the Library of Congress. Also appears…
Around New York in 15 Minutes
People waving goodbye to ship. High angle of intersection. People hurried off ferry. Pov o…
Arrival of the Stage at Wawona Hotel en Route to Yosemite
This film was part of a lecture series conducted by Burton Holmes showing a mix of lantern…
1905
Au pays des glaces
Short film about a Polar expedition
Automobile Races at Ormond, Fla.
Various shots of a car race and the spectators.
1905
Bargain Day, 14th Street, New York
The film shows hundreds of tightly packed people crowding into the front door of the Roths…
Bateaux sur le Nil
Boats on the Nile.
Bathing in the Ice at the L Street Bath, Boston
This film was photographed in the winter, much of it during an actual snowstorm, and snow…
Betting
At the racetrack.
1905
Building a British Railway Arrival of the Scotch Express at Rugby
It's the view out of a railroad car near the engine as it navigates among a choice of trac…
1905
Coney Island at Night
A panorama of Coney Island, taken at night: the camera sweeps across the scene from a vant…
Departure of Peary and the Roosevelt from New York
The 16 July 1905 departure of polar explorer Robert Peary on one of his expeditions to the…
Desperate Encounter Between Burglar and Police
Film shot with the help of the New York City (Metropolitan) Police.
1905
Dial's Girl's Band, Luna Park
The first camera position shows girls in uniform marching in double file down a curved fli…
1905
Duel Scene from Macbeth
Based on a scene from Shakespeare's play: Macbeth, king of Scotland, is being challenged b…
El llenador de sillas
A drunk furniture-repairer tries to wrangle sixteen chairs.
Empire State Express, the Second, Taking Water on the Fly
The second Empire State Express, behind a 4-4-2 Atlantic locomotive, demonstrates how to t…
Feu d'artifice
Colourful fireworks
Fontaine Lumineuse a Versailles
Colourful fountains in Versailles.
1905
Funeral of Hiram Cronk
View of funeral procession and military parade at funeral for Hiram Cronk, who at the time…