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Goodenough Island New Guinea 1943 stock footage and images

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Chinese Laundry Skit performed by Robetta and Doretto

Slapstick skit performed by Vaudeville stars, Robetta and Doretto (AKA Phil Lauter). They were known in the Vaudeville circuit as the "Chinese Comiques." Here they portray a policeman chasing a Chinese laundryman ("Hop Lee"). Filmed at Edison's Black Maria studio.

Date: 1894, November 26
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071502
Lovers tryst interrupted

A woman seated on a bench as she reads a book. A man joins her. They hug and kiss. The woman's father and brother approach from behind and break up the tryst. The father carries a spade and the young man defends himself with a walking stick. The father chases his daughter home with a kick. (Edison Company, 1896)

Date: 1896
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071514
Farmyard scene. Woman and girl feeding pigeons and hens.

Farmyard scene. A girl and her little sister stand outside their house and feed pigeons and chickens. Horse tied in the background. The pigeons flutter about. (Edison Company, 1896).

Date: 1896, October
Duration: 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071515
The morning bath. An African American mother bathes her infant.

An African American mother bathes her infant in a bucket of white soap suds. The baby struggles as his mother bathes him. (Edison Company, 1896)

Date: 1896, October
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071516
Horses saved from burning barn

A barn is burning, smoke coming from closed doors. A burning wagon is dragged from the barn by firemen, and four horses are rescued from the flames by the stableman. Heavy smoke billows from doors and windows. (Edison Company, 1896)

Date: 1896, October
Duration: 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071517
Workers build wooden bridges near Cave of Winds at foot of Niagara Falls

View of the Cave of Winds at base of Niagara Falls. Workmen build Cave of Winds wooden bridges while they endure rapids and dangerous water at the base of the Niagara Falls. Workman saws wood while covered with heavy mist at the base of Niagara Falls. Workman crawls carefully on wooden bridge to cross rapids. Heavy mist covers view of workmen in wooden bridges at Cave of Winds. Torrential rapids fall and mist covers the Cave of Winds and Niagara Falls.

Date: 1931
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078529