Edison Studios Movies

"Musicians are seated, playing, while the graceful Dolorita dances. It is the Danse-du-Ventre, the famous Oriental muscle dance."

A remarkable and mystifying picture, showing a Hindoo Fakir going through a series of tricks.

It's what it says on the label: a panoramic shot of East Galveston, right after the Storm of the Century came through, ripping up trees and destroying...

Native troops in what look like US Army uniforms do formation practicing with rifles in bayonet maneuver.

Shepherds in Hawaii push a flock of sheep in line through a trough of water.

Shows how they cut the wool off of sheep.

The ramshackle-looking train on the single-track line pulls into the station, just in front of the siding. People clumb down and go on their ways.

There's no harbor, and the ship lies some distance off shore..... then the camera pans and a tender has to be sent out amidst the rough water.

A bunch of men on horseback gallop past people near a shack in this short shot by Robert K.Bonine.

The title reads "Hailing Drags". You'd expect some sort of travois affair, but it turns out to be mules hailing sugar cane loaded onto wheeled flats....

The documentary features the oldest footage ever taken of surfing, and it was shot in Hawaii by Robert Bonine.

An early look at surfers off the coast of Honolulu

Young men playing on a floating platform off the coast of Honolulu.

A view of Haleiwa via the Oahu railroad.

Scenes of men and women parading horses.

A view of Pearl Harbor via railway.

A crew row their way from the S.S. Kinau through troublesome water to the shore.

A static shot of the sea tide bashing against the rocks.

Cattle are driven into the sea and tied to a row boat.

Dock workers offloading bags of sugar in Hawaii