Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre

Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre

Time-lapse photography showing the one month-long demolition of the Star Theatre in New York.

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A Nymph of the Waves

A Nymph of the Waves

A woman in ballet slippers wearing a large white hat and a long white dress - with ruffles, puffy sleeves and petticoats - dances across water with...

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Davey Jones' Locker

Davey Jones' Locker

Two sets of images are superimposed. From the side, we see a two-masted ship. Across the deck walks a skeleton. It sits down, its legs akimbo. The...

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Neptune's Daughters

Neptune's Daughters

A combination of the picture entitled "The Ballet of the Ghosts," and a surf scene; the resulting effect being that the ghostly figures rise up out...

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The Ghost Train

The Ghost Train

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

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In a Chinese Restaurant

In a Chinese Restaurant

Two Chinese men (in full regalia) and an American-style tough are sitting at a table, eating out of bowls, all of them using chop sticks; The...

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Buffalo Bill's Wild West Parade

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Parade

The film shows a parade down Fifth Avenue, New York. In the foreground many children, both black and white, can be seen following alongside the...

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Seeing New York by Yacht

Seeing New York by Yacht

Seeing New York by Yacht.

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Fougere

Fougere

The famous Parisian chanteuse in the rag-time cakewalk 'Hello, Ma Baby,' with which she made such a sensation at the New York Theatre.

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Down the Hudson

Down the Hudson

Film taken from a boat heading down the Hudson is shown at varying speeds, often giving a sense of rapid transit.

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Mardi Gras Carnival

Mardi Gras Carnival

The film is part of Eye Filmmuseum’s Mutoscope and Biograph Collection. This collection consists of about 200 films preserved on their original 68...

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Birth of the Pearl

Birth of the Pearl

In this picture there is a limited amount of action in the pose. As the curtains are drawn aside the shell appears shut. It gradually opens...

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Her First Cigarette

Her First Cigarette

From a single camera position, two young women are photographed lighting a cigarette. After several puffs, one of the young ladies becomes faint...

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Around the Flip-Flap Railroad

Around the Flip-Flap Railroad

A splendid picture of the remarkable centrifuge railroad at Coney Island in which the car makes a complete circle in its course around the track...

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Above the Limit

Above the Limit

Filming of a character sketch by the well-known vaudevillian Charles E. Grapewin. On a bare stage backed by a dark curtain, a man dressed in a...

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A Ray of Sunshine After the Rain

A Ray of Sunshine After the Rain

"This is a street scene. The rain has just ceased, and passers-by are lowering their umbrellas. A well-dressed young man meets a pretty girl...

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Ameta

Ameta

A filmed record of a fan dancer performing a dance using two white sheets suspended from poles which she frantically twirls around herself to...

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Charlie Wanted the Earth

Charlie Wanted the Earth

A couple are making love beneath the window of a cranky old gentleman. There is a handsome window garden above them filled with plants and flowers....

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The Corset Model

The Corset Model

The scene opens with a salesman displaying corsets to the buyer of a country store. He calls in a female model and tries a corset on her. While the...

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The Finish of Mr. Fresh

The Finish of Mr. Fresh

In this spirited and suggestive film, an aggressive young man is drenched in rich, high-protein comeuppance, after he attempts to tell a dairymaid...

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