Ocean waves hit the beach in Atlantic City. Building in background. Men and women walk on boardwalk. People ride in rolling chairs on the boardwalk. Shops lined on side of the boardwalk. Man walks on the boardwalk with a baby pram.
Animal tamer Clyde Beatty tames lions in a circus in Atlantic City. Beatty tames caged lions. Spectators watch from outside the cages.
Ice skating performances Atlantic City. Opening ceremony of the 18th edition of the Ice Capades. Artists perform various acts involving ice skating. Spectators cheer them. Freddie Trenkler perform sidesplitting comedy acts.
USS Akron, helium filled Zeppelin dirigible in the United States. Aerial view of USS Akron. Consolidated N2Y-1 training planes, trapeze-hook equipped , fly near USS Akron. Belly of USS Akron dirigible
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.
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)
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