The film titled 'Claremont Theater' depicts a crowd coming out of a theater in the United States. People come out of the Claremont Theater's front door. Women carry muffs and wear hats. Men are in suits. Posters placed on either side of the theater's front door. People keep coming out. It seems they will never stop. A woman pushes a pram. A crowd gathered in front of the theater. A flag flutters atop a restaurant building. A man drives a horse drawn cart through streets.The theater was showing Edison Company films.
Excerpt from the fictional film "Birth of a Nation". A pro Southern dramatization on the effect of the Civil War shows the first flag of the confederacy celebrated after the first Battle of Bull Run. Men and women gather on the street holding the flag. They cheer. A man with his child in house. He hugs his child. Other family members arrive and meet each other. They hug each other.
Railroad train operations in South Charleston Ohio and Glen Jean (Waverly) Ohio. View of railway cart on tracks and a building. Steam locomotive passes by the building pulling a passenger train. View of Charleston train station building. View from last train caboose or bogey shows a Ford Model T milk van carrying milk cans cross the railway tracks. Train on bridge and view of bridge from last train caboose at it crosses the bridge.
The mills of Ohio Quarry Company in the United States. A machine is used to saw out sidewalk flagging from the sandstone. Rough curbing department show methods of splitting sandstone into blocks. A crane is used to bring in the sandstone. Men hammer large nails into blocks to split them. The split block is lifted and put aside with the help of a crane. Men working on sandstone blocks.
City trains in New York, United States. A couple, both dressed in white, walks on a railway platform. A sign on the platform reads ' Lackawanna railroad'. A steam locomotive pulls a passenger train into the station. A conductor assists as the couple boards the train. They wave from the train. The conductor helps passengers, including the woman in white and her escort, to get off the train. The man in white tips the conductor.
A Detroit,Toledo,and Ironton railroad train arrives and interchanges with the Chesapeake and Ohio at Greggs. The steam locomotive is pulling a passenger train. It continues northbound,crossing the Scioto River (out of its banks) and the film ends just before crossing the N&W at Glen Jean.