Historic tableau presentation of the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. The role of Mary is played by Robert Thomae. The film employs stop action to substitute a dummy for the Queen. Filmed at Edison's Laboratory in New Jersey.
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.)
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)
Models display machine washable dresses in Manhattan, New York. The models walk on a ramp displaying dresses including mini skirts, culottes, short pants suits, tunic tops, striped skirts, baby dresses and mini disco dresses. All of them are of cotton and washable synthetics. Photographers take photos. Audience sitting at a dining table.
SS Siboney of American Export Lines arrives at Jersey City's harbor in New Jersey. Ship docks at pier. Passengers, including many Jewish migrants and refugees fleeing Nazi German persecution in Europe in World War II, come down a gangway having baggage passed through customs.
The Rodman Wanamaker Expedition of Citizenship to the Native American Indians in the United States. American flag raising ceremony at Fort Wadsworth, New York shows the leader of the expedition Dr. Joseph Kossuth Dixon dedicating the flag to American North American Indians and raising it at the site of the future National American Indian Memorial (which was never built), after the same flag had toured the U.S. to different tribes during the Rodman Wanamaker Expedition. The flag is raised by a member of Winnebago Native American Indian Reservation Henry Roe Cloud. Ex-Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs F. H. Abbott delivers a speech. at Fort Wadworth. Anchored ships. The President of the Board of Indian Commissioners George Vaux Jr. delivers a speech. Henry Roe Cloud speaks.
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