American Mutoscope Biograph Movies

The "Foxy Grandpa" is a series of eight short staged films illustrating scenes and incidents from William A. Brady's musical production ‘Foxy Grandpa’...

Reenactment of a battle in the Russo-Japanese War.

A woman barber is putting the finishing touches on a customer, who is so pleased with the operation that he puts his arms around her and kisses her. A...

A view from across the landing at Coney Island as a boat shoots down the track. "Shooting the Chutes" sign can be seen in the background.

The Prince of Wales reviews Paget's Horse, with black dog following.

A white cat is placed on a horse's back, with trainer and two other onlookers. c1900.

Short showing Theodore Roosevelt with his Rough Rider Friends.

Taken from the front end of a locomotive following an express train at high speed around the high curves of the Ninth Avenue Elevated, from the 104th...

Exhibition by Uncle Sam's troops in the Filipino Concession at the St. Louis Exposition

Footage of aviation tests from 1905.

This film shows a mechanical ride in an amusement park, designed to allow customers to ride down an undulating incline astride wooden horses. Several...

A first-class picture of the twin-screw express steamship "Columbia" of the Hamburg-American Line, leaving her pier with a great crowd of travellers a...

Farther west on the Ulster and Delaware track, our camera locomotive overtakes a U. & D. Switcher rocking and rolling along. Perhaps filmed on the sam...

The view from the pilot of an Ulster and Delaware locomotive pulling out of Kingston Union Station through Kingston, NY, in 1906.

Reconstitution of the 1905's eruption of Mount Vesubius

It's another crowded day in the water at Coney Island, with people shoving small boats out of the way so they can have enough room the splash about in...

In this picture the pretty bathing girls are riding their wheels along the hard sand of the beach. One girl who is a novice is learning to ride, and h...

A woman in a dressing gown peeks out her window and then pulls down the shade. She then takes off the gown and proceeds to put on clothes, offering a...

Here, on Grand Trunk's main line between Canada and the US, one of Biograph's early production crews rode the pilot of a locomotive from Sarnia, Ontar...