24 films in catalog

Frederick S. Armitage

24 films

Director (24)
Mardi Gras Carnival 1898

Mardi Gras Carnival

The film is part of Eye Filmmuseum’s Mutoscope and Biograph Collection. This collection co…

A Bad (K)night 1899

A Bad (K)night

A portly clubman comes home after a social session considerably the worse for the wear. In…

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1899

A Ray of Sunshine After the Rain

"This is a street scene. The rain has just ceased, and passers-by are lowering their umbre…

Her First Cigarette 1899

Her First Cigarette

From a single camera position, two young women are photographed lighting a cigarette. Afte…

The Corset Model 1899

The Corset Model

The scene opens with a salesman displaying corsets to the buyer of a country store. He cal…

The Dairymaid's Revenge 1899

The Dairymaid's Revenge

The milk of human unkindness flows in this 1899 revenge comedy from the American Mutoscope…

The Finish of Mr. Fresh 1899

The Finish of Mr. Fresh

In this spirited and suggestive film, an aggressive young man is drenched in rich, high-pr…

The Maniac Barber 1899

The Maniac Barber

This scene is laid in a barber shop. A customer enters and takes his seat in the chair. Th…

The Price of a Kiss 1899

The Price of a Kiss

A woman barber is putting the finishing touches on a customer, who is so pleased with the…

A Nymph of the Waves 1900

A Nymph of the Waves

A woman in ballet slippers wearing a large white hat and a long white dress - with ruffles…

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1900

Above the Limit

Filming of a character sketch by the well-known vaudevillian Charles E. Grapewin. On a bar…

Around the Flip-Flap Railroad 1900

Around the Flip-Flap Railroad

A splendid picture of the remarkable centrifuge railroad at Coney Island in which the car…

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1900

Davey Jones' Locker

Two sets of images are superimposed. From the side, we see a two-masted ship. Across the d…

Early Superimpositions 1900

Early Superimpositions

“The filmmaker took several different scenes shot earlier between 1896 and 1899 and double…

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1900

Neptune's Daughters

A combination of the picture entitled "The Ballet of the Ghosts," and a surf scene; the re…

Skating on Lake, Central Park 1900

Skating on Lake, Central Park

Photographed February 5, 1900.

Anna Held 1901

Anna Held

Stage star Anna Held (1872-1918) riffs on her once-famous scene from the comedy Papa's Wif…

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1901

Birth of the Pearl

In this picture there is a limited amount of action in the pose. As the curtains are drawn…

Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre 1901

Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre

Time-lapse photography showing the one month-long demolition of the Star Theatre in New Yo…

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1901

The Ghost Train

Special effects film with a train double exposed on the negative, creating a ghostly image…

U.S.I. Dept., "Old Faithful," Yosemite Valley 1901

U.S.I. Dept., "Old Faithful," Yosemite Valley

The great geyser at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. c. 1901.

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1903

Ameta

A filmed record of a fan dancer performing a dance using two white sheets suspended from p…

Seeing New York by Yacht 1903

Seeing New York by Yacht

Seeing New York by Yacht.

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1904

M. Lavelle, Physical Culture, no. 1

This is a single camera position film of muscle-flexing exercises by a professional physic…