- Overview
Walking four abreast, in groups of six rows, 144 of Chicago's finest parade past a stationary camera. Each of the six groups that pass is escorted by an officer. All are men, all are white, all look tall, all wear identical high-buttoned uniforms and badges and carry a nightstick. Almost all sport mustaches. Behind the police comes a horse-drawn carriage.
- Release Date
20 September 1896
- DirectingAlexandre Promio
- Budget
$0.00
- Revenue
$0.00
- Stars
Videos
User Reviews
See moreMore Like This
Sprængning af Træer i Dyrehaven
A group of military men uses explosives to de-root trees.
See moreKøbenhavnerbilleder
Various street scenes from Copenhagen in 1907.
See moreHansa
Footage of the German airship Hansa over Copenhagen.
See moreHunting the Panther
A hunter and his native helpers set up a trap, then taunt and shoot a panther. Next we see the locals skin the animal.
See moreDr. Cook at Copenhagen
On 4 September Frederick Albert Cook (1865-1940) arrived in Copenhagen on the ship 'Hans Egede'. He received a hero's welcome as the first man to...
See moreNanook of the North
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production...
See moreRailway Station
Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw after the rush hour.
See moreThe Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat
A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and...
See moreThe New Apartment
A commissioned film for Schweizerischer Werkbund (SWB), Die neue Wohnung was produced for the Basel architectural and interior design exhibition...
See moreCity of Wax
City of Wax is a 1934 American short documentary film produced by Horace and Stacy Woodard about the life of a bee. It won the Oscar at the 7th...
See morePopular Science J-7-1
Raising angora rabbits for wool; new marine navigation and safety technology; kitchen gadgets; developing new rose varieties.
See moreBerlin: Symphony of a Great City
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working...
See moreWeaving Women
A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.
See moreCrabs and Shrimp
Jean Painlevé is interested here, with the help of Eli Lotar, in crabs and shrimps. He is particularly interested in detailing their anatomy and...
See moreLaurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic
The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and...
See moreOpening of the Kiel Canal
The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.
See moreFight for the Dardanelles
The film uses stop-frame animation to create maps on the screen, and showed the then-current military situation in the Dardanelles, using various...
See moreOne Second in Montreal
A silent succession of black-and-white photographs of the city of Montreal.
See moreMark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Documentary footage of the author and his two daughters at home.
See moreGreta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life in Stockholm, with excerpts from her films...
See more