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A remarkable picture in many ways. It shows a game between two expert English teams from the go-off to the making of a goal. The photographic effects...
Water Polo - Worthing Swimming Club
Two men with three lordships between them.
Pope Leo XIII and Count Pecci, No. 1
Courses de taureaux : mort du taureau
A group of children in a pillow fight.
Pillow Fight, No. 2
Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Pope Leo XIII Carried through the Vatican Loggia on His Way to the Sistine Chapel
This 1898 film is the earliest known surviving footage relating to the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration. Sir George Newnes, who first published...
Antarctic Expedition: Sir George Newnes' Farewell to Officers and Crew
Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by...
Divers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine"
There is a burglar on the rooftop of a Manhattan office building, and he is trying to break in. Two women spot him, and one of them begins beating...
The Burglar on the Roof
Windmills along the River Zaan.
Mills from the Zaanstreek
The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and...
Adventures of William Tell
A man plays the trombone, to which is attached a saw.
The Woodcutter, a Music Lover
A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.
The Dancing Skeleton
"Many spectators who have viewed this picture on the Biograph have insisted that they have experienced the pangs of seasickness. The picture was...
A Tug in a Heavy Sea
Advertising in the center of St. Gallen.
Animation sur la Marktplatz à Saint-Gall
A folk dance staged in the ruins of Pompeii. With the Arch of Tiberius in the near distance and Arch of Caligula in far distance. A troop of...
Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii
Italian and German sovereigns, Umberto I and Margherita of Savoy, Wilhelm II and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, walking down the stairs and...
Départ en gondole de Leurs Majestés
“In these two images [see Nos. 1273 and 1274], the dancers are performing different movements; in No. [1273], they are carrying parasols, and...
Danseuses japonaises : la danse des éventails
First part of a series documenting the Basel carnival.
Cortège du Carnaval de Bâle, I
A method soldier boys have for amusing themselves in their leisure moments. New comrades are frequently initiated by the old-fashioned sport of...
Blanket-Tossing A New Recruit
When Battery B of the 4th U.S. Artillery came to Tampa, Fla., it meant business, and the picture shows it. One by one the big artillery-men pass by...
Battery B Arriving at Camp
Evian : procession de la Fête-Dieu III
The Humpty Dumpty Circus is the first animated short film created in stop-motion technique. It features a circus with acrobats and animals in motion.
Humpty Dumpty Circus
