Paper print. Early motion picture from turn of 20th century depicting fictional early flight. Humorous Dramatization. Policeman at Aircycle Police station scans sky through spy glass or telescope. Sign reads: "Aircycle Police Station number 38." Another sign reads: "Speed limit over cities 100 miles per hour." Air contraptions being built by two men. Sailors on a ship beat a large fish on deck. Citizens and policemen running and pointing skyward and looking through telescopes. In the air, a man appears riding a bicycle airplane. A man and woman prepare to board a balloon airship. A man flies by flapping large wings like an ornithopter. A man walking on the sidewalk is disturbed by rush of air from the balloon airship. Photographers rush to an observer to photograph the sights.The observer-reporter has a very very long nose.
Paper print. Motion picture made at turn of 20th century. Dramatization. A palace in 18th century Europe. A dramatization depicts: women stand in a garden. A maid at the service of a princess in the palace. A man comes and takes the princess along. Guards stop him.Fighting ensues.
Paper print. Early American motion picture.Dramatization depicts: couple in costume of European nobility seated on a sofa. They talk and exchange rings. Guards walk through streets. Buildings in the background. People seated at table in a restaurant drink tea. Woman reads a letter. Two maids interact.
A film titled 'Skating on Lake, Central Park.' The view is of a frozen lake in Central Park, in Manhattan, New York City, crowded with ice skaters. Children seen skating along with elders in the park.
A film titled 'Beginning of a skyscraper'. View of an excavation site in New York City. Workmen with pick-axe and shovels are seen digging. Carts drawn by pairs of horses can be seen. Smoke seen rising up.
A film titled 'A Perilous Proceeding'. A group of men climb on the cable and bucket of a large crane at the top of a building under construction. The men are lifted over the site and gradually lowered to the ground..
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