A film titled 'Hooligan assists the Magician'. Mr. Hooligan volunteers his services for the magic show. A couple of barrels seen which when knocked, regains their balance. Clowns as well as ghosts appear and disappear from the barrel, to bother Mr. Hooligan, the volunteer. He captures them and they turn in to white muslin. The magician reappears and turns the muslin into bits of paper and a goblin.
Earliest motion pictures captured at the turn of the 20th century in Europe. Berlin 1895: Otto Von Bismarck, Chancellor of Germany, addresses Germans about the need for 'blood and iron'. Large crowd gathered at a Berlin square to hear him. Next scene is in England, United Kingdom, in 1903: The young boy future Prince of Wales and future King Edward VIII plays with his brother Albert (the future King George VI) and his sister, Mary (Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood) on the grounds of Windsor Castle. The two boys hold toy guns and march. Next images are in Moscow, Russia, in 1907: Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, at a gathering with military officials and other dignitaries. A large crowd outside the palace. Germany, 1910: Kaiser Wilhelm II along with other military officials at an orphanage. Children put up a show for the German Emperor. Orphan children posing with the Kaiser.
Newspaper headlines from 1876 note Kansas as a territory for pioneer settlement...."Farms and Homes in Kansas!" and "To the Black Hills" Farmers with their families in front of prairie homes. Barn raising. A village along the side of a river. School children. A child's coffin. Men drinking together. A string quartet. A man making violins. Railroad construction crews laying rails, clearing rocks, and building trestle bridges, including Chinese workers and laborers during expansion or railway to the west. European immigrants on ships and just arrived on land, possibly at Ellis Island. Logging camps and loggers cutting trees. Large scale farming and market. Coal mining and other mining activities. Child coal miners and child labor. Industrial steel forging. Factory with train switch yard. Immigrant ghettos in American cities. Immigrant women sewing piece work. Immigrant children.
Life of Japanese women depicted from the start of Emperor Meiji’s reign (Meiji Era- October 23, 1868 to July 30, 1912). Japanese women wearing kimono talk while walking together in the grounds of the Kiyomizu-dera Buddhist temple (294 Kiyomizu, Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto, 605-0862, Japan). A scroll written with Japanese calligraphy. Old Japanese ship in the ocean. Japanese men vote. A Japanese woman cleans floor. Photograph of a prominent Japanese feminist (probably Ichiyo Higuchi). A gathering of traditional Japanese suffragists or feminists wearing kimonos. View of the Tsuda University (2 Chome-1-1 Tsudamachi, Kodaira, Tokyo 187-0025, Japan), a private women's university in Tokyo. Photograph of Tsuda Umeko, educator and founder of Tsuda University. A young Japanese girl boards a ship.
U.S. First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is seen in American Red Cross uniform speaking to an audience (unseen) during World War 2. She tells a joke about an American soldier fighting in in the Pacific, against the Japanese. Montage of unconnected scenes. Eleanor Roosevelt entering a building displaying a large American Flag; conversing with Vice President Richard Nixon;in a gathering outdoors with Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru;meeting with children in a school; speaking at a Democratic National Convention. Pictures of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, as a child, circa 1891; with her father in 1892; At the home of her Grandmother, with a pony; Visiting the home of her Uncle, Theodore Roosevelt, at Sagamore Hill, Long Island. Theodore Roosevelt rowing a boat. Photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt in 1902. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (her 5th cousin) in a top hat. The two of them courting. Picture of Sara Roosevelt, Franklin's mother, with Franklin and Eleanor in 1904, the year of their engagement. The couple's formal wedding picture. President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt, at their wedding in 1905. Scenes of Eleanor Roosevelt with her mother-in-law, Sara Delano Roosevelt, in the early years of Eleanor's marriage to Franklin Roosevelt.
The film titled 'Watermelon Contest' depicts men eating watermelon in the United States. Four African American men seated in a garden. They eat watermelon. Trees in the background. At first they seem serious. But they gradually turn the event into a comical farce.