Frederick S. Armitage
1898
Mardi Gras Carnival
The film is part of Eye Filmmuseum’s Mutoscope and Biograph Collection. This collection co…
1899
A Bad (K)night
A portly clubman comes home after a social session considerably the worse for the wear. In…
A Ray of Sunshine After the Rain
"This is a street scene. The rain has just ceased, and passers-by are lowering their umbre…
1899
Her First Cigarette
From a single camera position, two young women are photographed lighting a cigarette. Afte…
1899
The Corset Model
The scene opens with a salesman displaying corsets to the buyer of a country store. He cal…
1899
The Dairymaid's Revenge
The milk of human unkindness flows in this 1899 revenge comedy from the American Mutoscope…
1899
The Finish of Mr. Fresh
In this spirited and suggestive film, an aggressive young man is drenched in rich, high-pr…
1899
The Maniac Barber
This scene is laid in a barber shop. A customer enters and takes his seat in the chair. Th…
1899
The Price of a Kiss
A woman barber is putting the finishing touches on a customer, who is so pleased with the…
1900
A Nymph of the Waves
A woman in ballet slippers wearing a large white hat and a long white dress - with ruffles…
Above the Limit
Filming of a character sketch by the well-known vaudevillian Charles E. Grapewin. On a bar…
1900
Around the Flip-Flap Railroad
A splendid picture of the remarkable centrifuge railroad at Coney Island in which the car…
Davey Jones' Locker
Two sets of images are superimposed. From the side, we see a two-masted ship. Across the d…
1900
Early Superimpositions
“The filmmaker took several different scenes shot earlier between 1896 and 1899 and double…
Neptune's Daughters
A combination of the picture entitled "The Ballet of the Ghosts," and a surf scene; the re…
1900
Skating on Lake, Central Park
Photographed February 5, 1900.
1901
Anna Held
Stage star Anna Held (1872-1918) riffs on her once-famous scene from the comedy Papa's Wif…
Birth of the Pearl
In this picture there is a limited amount of action in the pose. As the curtains are drawn…
1901
Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre
Time-lapse photography showing the one month-long demolition of the Star Theatre in New Yo…
The Ghost Train
Special effects film with a train double exposed on the negative, creating a ghostly image…
1901
U.S.I. Dept., "Old Faithful," Yosemite Valley
The great geyser at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. c. 1901.
Ameta
A filmed record of a fan dancer performing a dance using two white sheets suspended from p…
1903
Seeing New York by Yacht
Seeing New York by Yacht.
M. Lavelle, Physical Culture, no. 1
This is a single camera position film of muscle-flexing exercises by a professional physic…