American Mutoscope Biograph Movies

Two workers leave boxes of explosives with a push cart street vendor while they visit a bar. They return drunk and accidentally drop a box of nitro po...

A young Indian girl is adopted by a white couple who treat her almost as their daughter, educating her and showering on her every attention. She is ha...

The young husband's irrational jealousy makes him suspicious of every attention bestowed upon his wife. Even the minister, who performed their marriag...

A marriage, a fight, a chase and a honeymoon

It is springtime when little Mabel arrives at her Uncle Zeke's farm. Henry and Steve, two farmhands, are chums, having spent the years of their adoles...

Sandow and Peerless Annabelle were the first performers filmed by the new American Mutoscope Co. Annabelle reprised her Butterfly Dance and several ot...

This picture was taken after the battle of Las Guaymas, and shows a large number of wounded soldiers embarking in a rowboat from an extemporized dock....

Mutiny on a Russian Battleship.

A husband walks out on his wife, leaving an incriminating letter behind. She hires a detective, who discovers the husband in a compromising position w...

Taken during the land parade in honor of Admiral Dewey, just before the turn into 72nd street...

Of the thousand and more men who left New York for the Cuban Campaign, scarcely three hundred were able to shoulder their rifles to march before the B...

This picture has been very popular wherever it has been shown on the Biograph. To begin with, the film is unusually fine photographically, and the pic...

Four women dressed in the costume of the era perform a can-can. They were photographed from a single camera position.

"An exhibition of Prof. Leonidas's trained animals. A cat is stretched across two chairs, and a number of dogs of different breeds jump over her."

An interesting view of Central Park before there was a skyline of buildings. All along the length of the park on both sides and to the north, with the...

This picture was taken in front of Gen. Wheeler's headquarters at Camp Wikoff during Gen. Alger's tour of inspection of the camp. The two distinguishe...

A view of the arch from Fifth Avenue, the day after the great Dewey parade, showing the crowd of sight-seers, traffic, etc.

Two small boys with policemen's hats and nightsticks are struggling with another small boy. The object of their struggle seems to be to arrest him. Ap...

Two tunnel workers are fighting over the wife of one, who's also involved with the other. Suddenly an explosion occurs. Instead of fighting, they help...

A payroll clerk is framed by a man competing with him for the attentions of a mill girl.