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Children cavort in swimming pool at Sutro Baths, San Francisco, California.

Children, in swim suits, play at a pool in in Sutro Baths, San Francisco, California. They slide down a long slide on the north side of the baths, into the water. Children play and jump into the pool. Some dive from spring boards. (Edison Company, Sutro Baths No. 1, 1897)

Location: San Francisco California USA
Date: 1897, October 25
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065293
Seminary girls pillow fight

Five Seminary girls in white night dresses engage in a pillow fight. A woman (teacher) enters the room and admonishes them.The girls try to hide. One tries to crawl under a bed, but the woman grabs her by the feet and pulls her out. (Filmed April, 1897, in Edison Studio, New Jersey.)

Location: West Orange New Jersey USA
Date: 1897, April
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071524
Pioneering use of motion pictures for advertising (cigarettes)

Early advertising: Admiral Cigarette (1897) in the United States. A commercial. Four men in various costumes sit and converse in front of a billboard for Admiral Cigarettes. The billboard fills the entire background. Beside them is a large box, marked Admiral Cigarettes. A cross section of men: one dressed as an American Indian, with feather headdress, another a military outfit, a third, as Uncle Sam in striped pants, and the fourth (with pork-chop whiskers) is in a suit, vest, tie, and hat. Suddenly, the box pops open and a woman in tight-fitting costume emerges. She hands out cigarettes to the men and scatters dozens of cigarettes in front of them. She and the men smoke cigarettes and the men unfurl a banner saying, "We all smoke." (Edison Studio, New Jersey)

Location: West Orange New Jersey USA
Date: 1897, July
Duration: 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071539
Four girls engage in a pillow fight.

Two girls fight with pillow. Pillow is torn into pieces. Four girls in their night dresses engaged in the pillow fight. Feathers fly over their heads and about the room. (Edison Studio, 1897)

Location: West Orange New Jersey USA
Date: 1897, May 24
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065281
Comic encounter. Awkward couple kisses

An old man in a straw hat sits on a chair. A younger woman wearing apron and large hat stands awkwardly beside him. They both talk to each other and laugh. The old man gets up and walks toward the woman and stands beside her. They get ready to kiss each other. The old man's hat slips off as the couple kisses comically with numerous short pecks . (Edison Studio, 1897)

Location: West Orange New Jersey USA
Date: 1897
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065283
Spectators seated in the stands cheer for riders during the Suburban Handicap horse race in New York, United States.

Paper print. Very early motion picture documentary. The Suburban Handicap in New York, United States in the year 1897. Riders mounted on horseback move through the race course before the race. The race begins. Spectators seated in stands cheer for the riders. Jockeys pet their horses after the race.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1897
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073430
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