- Description:
- 1/2 in., VHS, NTSC.   viewing copy.   1 videocassette of 1.
b/w.  
fullscreen.  
- Notes:
- Videotape includes a number of Library of Congress Paper Prints Collection titles. Includes: PULL DOWN THE CURTAINS, SUSIE (American Mutoscope & Biograph Co., cameraman: A.E. Weed, 1904, 46 sec.); UNCLE JOSH AT THE MOVING PICTURE SHOW (Edison Co., cameraman: Edwin S. Porter, 1902, 1.5 min.); WHAT HAPPENED ON TWENTY-THIRD STREET, NEW YORK CITY (Edison Co., 1901, 1 min.); CHINESE LAUNDRY (1894, Edison Kinetoscope film, with Robetta and Doretto); THE EXECUTION OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS (1895, Edison Kinetoscope film, directed by Alfred Clark, with Mr. R.L. Thomas as Mary); DICKSON EXPERIMENTAL SOUND FILM (ca. 1895, Edison Company, directed by, and with, William K.L. Dickson); THE IRWIN - RICE KISS (1896, Edison Company, from the play The Widow Jones, with May Irwin and John C. Rice); FEEDING THE DOVES (1896, Edison Company); MORNING BATH (1896, Edison Company); BURNING STABLE (1896, Edison Company); THE BLACK DIAMOND EXPRESS (1896, Edison Company); NEW YORK STREET SCENES (ca. 1897, identification uncertain); FATIMA (1897, The International Film Company, identification uncertain); A WRINGING GOOD JOKE (1899, Edison Company); DEWAR'S SCOTCH WHISKY (1897, The International Film Company); GRANDPA'S READING GLASSES (AM & B, 1902, ca. 1 min.); MR. HURRY - UP OF NEW YORK (AM & B, 1907, ca. 4m); THE TIRED TAILOR'S DREAM (AM & B, 1907, ca. 4 min.); THE SCULPTOR'S NIGHTMARE (AM & B, 1908, ca. 4 min.); EGYPTIAN FAKIR WITH DANCING MONKEY (Edison Co., A.C. Abadie, 1903, 2m); NERVY NAT KISSES THE BRIDE (Edison Co., Porter, 1904, 2m); SCARECROW PUMP (Edison Co., Porter, 1904, 1m); THE DUDE AND THE BURGLARS (AM & B, 1903, ca. 30 sec.); THE STORY THE BIOGRAPH TOLD (AM & B, 1904, ca. 2 min.); PERSONAL (AM & B, 1904, ca. 3m); THE WIDOW AND THE ONLY MAN (AM & B, 1904, ca. 5m); THE LOST CHILD (AM & B, 1904, ca., 4m.); HUMOROUS PHASES OF FUNNY FACES (Vitagraph, J. Stuart Blackton, 1906, ca. 1 min.); PRINCESS NICOTINE (Blackton, 1909); THE COUNTRY DOCTOR (D.W. Griffith, Biograph Co., 1909, ca. 11 min.); THE GYPSY'S WARNING, (Georges Melies, France, 1913, 11m).
Titles
+ Dude And The Burglars, The
- Production Co:
- American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   1 minutes
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1903
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
+ Egyptian Fakir With Dancing Monkey
- Director:
- Abadie, A.C.
- Production Co:
- Edison Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   2 minutes
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1903
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
+ Grandpa’s Reading Glasses
- Production Co:
- American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   1 minutes
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1902
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
+ Gypsy’s Warning, The
- Director:
- Méliès, Georges
- Running Time:
- Short.   11 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1913
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
+ Scarecrow Pump
- Director:
- Porter, Edwin S.
- Production Co:
- Edison Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   1 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1904
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ What Happened On 23rd Street, New York City
- Alternate Title:
- What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City
- Director:
- Porter, Edwin S.
- Production Co:
- Edison Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   1 minutes
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1901
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Nervy Nat Kisses The Bride
- Director:
- Porter, Edwin S.
- Production Co:
- Edison Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   2 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1904
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
+ Burning Stable
- Production Co:
- Edison Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   0 minutes
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1896
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
+ Country Doctor, The
- Director:
- Griffith, D. W.
- Production Co:
- Biograph Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   11 minutes
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1909
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Link to:
- FII catalog | AFI catalog
+ Dickson Experimental Sound Film
- Director:
- Dickson, William L. K.
- Production Co:
- Edison Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   0 minutes
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- ca. 1896
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
+ Pull Down The Curtains, Susie
- Production Co:
- American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   1 minutes
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1904
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
+ Widow And The Only Man, The
- Director:
- McCutcheon, Wallace
- Production Co:
- American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   5 minutes
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1904
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Black Diamond Express, The
- Production Co:
- Edison Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   0 minutes
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1896
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
+ Chinese Laundry
- Production Co:
- Edison Kinetoscope
- Running Time:
- Short.   0 minutes
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1894
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
+ Dewar’s Scotch Whiskey
- Production Co:
- International Film Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   0 minutes
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1897
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
+ Execution Of Mary Queen Of Scots, The
- Director:
- Clark, Alfred
- Production Co:
- Edison Kinetoscope
- Running Time:
- Short.   0 minutes
- Year:
- 1895
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
+ Fatima
- Production Co:
- International Film Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   0 minutes
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1897
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
+ Humorous Phases Of Funny Faces
- Director:
- Blackton, J. Stuart
- Production Co:
- Vitagraph Co. of America
- Running Time:
- Short.   1 minutes
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1906
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
+ Lost Child, The
- Director:
- McCutcheon, Wallace
- Production Co:
- American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   4 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1904
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Mr. Hurry-Up Of New York
- Production Co:
- American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   4 minutes
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1907
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
+ Morning Bath
- Production Co:
- Edison Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   0 minutes
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1896
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
+ New York Street Scenes
0 minutes
- Year:
- ca. 1897
+ Personal
- Director:
- McCutcheon, Wallace
- Production Co:
- American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   3 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1904
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Princess Nicotine; Or, A Smoke Fairy
- Director:
- Blackton, J. Stuart
0 minutes
- Year:
- 1909
+ Sculptor's Nightmare, The
- Director:
- McCutcheon, Wallace
- Production Co:
- American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   4 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1908
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Comedy, Silent Cinema
- Link to:
- FII catalog | AFI catalog
+ Story The Biograph Told, The
- Production Co:
- American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   2 minutes
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1904
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
+ Tired Tailor’s Dream, The
- Production Co:
- American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   4 minutes
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1907
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
+ Uncle Josh At The Moving Picture Show
- Director:
- Porter, Edwin S.
- Production Co:
- Edison Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   2 minutes
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1902
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Wringing Good Joke, A
- Production Co:
- Edison Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   0 minutes
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1899
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
+ Feeding The Doves
- Production Co:
- Edison Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   0 minutes
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1896
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
+ Irwin-Rice Kiss
- Production Co:
- Edison Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   0 minutes
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1896
- Genre:
- Early Cinema