American Mutoscope Biograph Movies

Various shots of a car race and the spectators.

A train ride of New York.

I'm not sure why the negotiations that ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 took place in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, but President Theodore Roosevel...

Three girls in evening costumes seated about a table blowing bubbles. As the bubbles are formed the young ladies drop them on the table and blow them...

The USS Indiana stages a rescue operation of a crewman that's fallen overboard.

"A fascinating skirt dance by the well-known roof garden favorite."

The milk of human unkindness flows in this 1899 revenge comedy from the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, in which a put-upon dairymaid throws of...

A view of the work in the big excavation for the Rapid Transit Tunnel at Union Square, New York.

Views and pans among the ruins of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire.

Views and pans among the ruins of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire.

Male letter carriers of the U.S. Post Office are the subject of this series on the Postal Department. The camera was placed to show a large number of...

A train travels along the tracks of the West Shore Railroad in Rockland County, New York. It goes through the Haverstraw Tunnel and out the other side...

The great automobile fire engine on its way to a conflagration, accompanied by hose wagons, etc. A very exciting scene.

A woman dressed as a Spanish dancer enters from the wings, camera right, and starts to dance. Her dancing consists of a series of high kicks, followed...

Two kids having a boxing match at the beach.

A young girl reciting "The Star Spangled Banner" in sign language as taught at Gallaudet Institute.

Five African Americans--three men and two women--perform a cakewalk, a dance featuring fancy strutting that was named after the prize awarded in the o...

America's Cup Races.

A very interesting and unusual view showing the progress of the deep excavation at 42nd St. and Broadway. The camera is tilted up and down instead of...

Variant titles from Biograph production logs indicate that the 15th Infantry was on the way to China. Other sources indicate that the regiment was hea...