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Four girls have a pillow fight. Various written statements by Edison concerning origin and restrictions on use of the film.
View of letter signed by Thomas A. Edison, dated September 30, 1902, concerning restrictions on use of the film. Line at top of letter reads: "Patented March 14, 1893." The film shows four Girls, in white night dresses, engaged in a pillow fight. One of the pillows tears and feathers fly everywhere. A single frame inserted at time code 00:14/ 00:30 reads: "Copyright 1897 by Thomas A. Edison."
Eads Bridge over Mississippi River; Brooklyn Bridge construction in New York; Williamsburg Bridge construction fire damage
Host Lee Marvin. The Triple span arch Eads Bridge at St. Louis, connecting St. Louis and East St. Louis, Illinois. View of the bridge spanning the Mississippi River. View of the Eads Bridge with the St. Louis Arch in the background. Boat passes under the bridge. Aerial views of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. Portraits of John Augustus Roebling, then of his son, Washington, and his wife Emily Warren Roebling, and the story of how he gave her his instructions on how to build the bridge by tapping on her arm, due to his caisson illness. Views of the Brooklyn bridge from various angles. Early moving image footage of the nearby Williamsburg Bridge, still under construction and not yet completed, shot in 1902. The scene shows recent fire damage to the Williamsburg Bridge. Next scene shows September 22, 1899 Edison footage of the Brooklyn Bridge taken aboard a moving train moving toward the bridge.
Horse drawn vehicles and pedestrians make their way through snow covered city streets during a blizzard in the United States.
Paper print. Early motion picture from turn of 20th century. A blizzard in a city in the United States. A team of horses pulls a heavy wagon on a snow covered street. A woman walks on sidewalk. Numerous horse-drawn wagons on the streets. Men walk along snow-covered streets and sidewalks. A street car passes on a street. Horse and carriage waits at edge of a park. Men and women make their way through the snow. A partially plowed street with snow piled up in places. The street and sidewalk is filled with pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles.
Film illusion of a man pedaling a flying machine in the sky over New York City
Paper print. Early illusory motion picture, from turn of 20th century. Depicts a man pedalling a flying machine above scenes of New York City. Bridges of New York City are recognizable in the images below the man, including the Brooklyn Bridge. The man and machine appear to fall down at end of scene.
A dramatization involving policemen, ordinary citizens, and escaped convicts
Paper print. Early motion picture from turn of 20th century. A dramatization depicts: Men and women stand on a path as a policeman apprehends a man. Buildings in the background. A woman materializes in a room with two men. A man and a woman seated in a room. He points at the clock which shows time is past midnight. A policeman enters the room and arrests their daughter. The mother pleads with the policeman. Outside, two masked men place a ladder against the house and run away. A policeman sees the ladder and looks up. Inside the house the man starts to turn out the light when a woman jumps up and he and she both point pistols at each other but realize their mistake. Outside, police hold two escaped convicts in striped prison garb, as several women and a man look on.
A dramatization depicts: civilians point at the sky and look through binoculars at an aerial contraption in the United States.
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.