In this movie, dancer Ella Lola performs a Turkish variation of a "Danse Du Ventre", the oriental belly dance. In her dance she shakes, twists and...

Four men of different ranks play a game of tetherball on a ship's deck.

Satan conjures a vision of a girl, for whom an old man signs a pact and is made young. This is a lost film from George Albert Smith

The skaters dart to and fro, swinging their hockeys and trying to hit the disc toward the goal.

"The first U.S. Troops to land, June 22, 1898. Transports in the distance. Soldiers clamber up from boats onto the long railroad pier." - from the...

From the upper windows of a ruined mill Cubans are firing at a scouting party of Spaniards, who return the volley. Fine smoke effects.

A blind man begging for change tries to outsmart a cop.

Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen. This version is shot with a long shot and shows more of the vaudeville stylings of...

Skating scene.

Sailors training with swords.

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

He sits asleep at a bare table; old witch enters, raps three times, then disappears; cavalier sees table spread for a sumptuous repast....

American Indians dancing.

A preadolescent boy, dressed like a street urchin, performs acrobatic stunts for the camera.

The end of the Longchamp parade and departure of the President, filmed by the Lumière brothers.

Miners at the Solvay Quarries leave their drilling machine to flee from a planned blast in the rock face.

This boat was the first one to leave for the South with troops. On board is a battalion of the 5th U.S. Infantry.

A ‘phantom ride’ taken from the front of a train passing through the Devon town of Barnstaple.

Black hooded pallbearers carry a coffin in a funeral procession in front of onlookers.

A sweet little girl is seated in the bow of a life-boat feeding crackers to a magnificent St. Bernard dog, while a tabby cat dozes and blinks at her...

"This picture was taken from the front of a rapidly moving launch through one of the most beautiful stretches of the Grand Canal, showing many...

A clown cuts off a customer's head and replaces it.

Pelicans being released for feeding into their enclosure at London Zoological Gardens.

Taken at Fingal, Cal., where the world-renowned 'Sunset Limited' trains pass each other.

The boulevard in front of the Kurhaus, with pedestrians and a terrace.

The Reading's [Pennsylvania] pitcher has just let a Newark [New Jersey] batsman walk to first. Our camera is stationed about twenty feet from the...

"The commander of the 5th Army Corps rides forward with a party of officers. He wears a white helmet, a broad expanse of shirt bosom and a general...

An active outdoor film with cattle being driven from an outdoor corral by mounted cowboys.

Georges Hatot and Gaston Bretaeau with Henri Vallouy, a Gaumont employee, acting as cinematographer. Breteau himself seems to have taken the main...

J. Stuart Blackton filming the Battle of Santiago Bay in 1898

A man surprises a woman. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu...

Without a doubt this is the finest railroad moving picture ever made, and for variety and beauty of scenery it can hardly be surpassed the world...

Thieves are chased by police on rooftops.

"Here was built the peerless battleship 'Oregon.' The scene is taken at lunch hour, and shows a great throng of employees leaving the shop."

"A great pack train approaches rapidly, following the gray bell-mule. Cowboys dash to and fro, keeping them bunched. Clouds of dust arise as they...