Movies

Presumably the woman is Betsy Ross, and she's quite a pretty woman with tumbling dark hair and coltish legs. She dances energetically, but it all...

"Children in the Surf, Coney Island" is a very short documentary with Billy Bitzer behind the camera.

Iola, the little Indian girl, is held captive by a gang of cutthroats but is soon rescued by Jack Harper, a prospector. She is truly grateful to...

The Goddess, the prettiest and best-natured girl that ever graced that little mining town, meets the tenderfoot prospector and leaves him another...

A city family goes to the shore for a vacation, but everything goes wrong.

A group of men work on various parts of a large generator, assembling the pieces

Numerous women stand at several rows of tables where they appear to be wrapping tape around some devices, presumably coils. Male supervisors walk...

A camera on an overhead crane travels down a large, long aisle where men are shown working on large machinery on either side. Carts carrying...

A closeup of the steam whistle blowing at the "Westinghouse works" complex of factories in Pennsylvania, probably at the Westinghouse Electric &...

A bored Lady Helen goes slumming as a domestic in a boarding house. There she falls in love with a sensitive young musician. The other women in the...

A comic looking prison eats soup

From what appears to be a furnace, a large, glowing block is lifted with the help of a crane over to a table by a group of men. A hammer comes from...

President McKinley Inauguration

Mr. Jones at the Ball is a 1908 American silent short comedy film, part of the once-popular Biograph series centered around the titular Jones and his...

Panoramic View, Aisle B, Westinghouse Works

Made in 1905 when short films were still being done in just one shot (for the Kinetoscope peep-show machines) and lasted about 2 minutes, this...

A country girl follows a city suitor, but is left alone and must fend for herself.

Mack Sennett appears as a party guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Rows of women are shown at tables with winding machines. They wind using material from spools behind them, apparently putting the finished products...

A large group of men are shown performing various tasks in one room at the Westinghouse Air Brake Co. On one side, men are shown pouring a hot liquid...