American composer, George Gershwin, performs solo passage on the piano (likely from Rhapsody in Blue). Gershwin at the piano accompanied by Paul Whiteman's orchestra, with Whiteman conducting. Paul Whiteman playing violin with several other violinists. A Harlem jazz band of African American musicians performing in a jazz club. Couples dancing the Charleston. Band members singing with megaphones as flappers and couples dance, including the Charleston dance.
These are clips from major league baseball games in the mid 1920s. President Calvin Coolidge throws out ceremonial first pitch before a Washington Senators baseball game under the watchful eye of team manager Bucky Harris. (Game is either a Senators home opener or a World Series game.) Views of crowd of fans, mostly men all wearing hats, but some women also, cheering in the stadium. In a different game, likely in New York, Babe Ruth hits a home run and tips his cap to a wildly cheering crowd.
A legless beggar with a sign around his neck that reads 'Help the Blind', hobbles along a crowded city sidewalk. A legless child hobbles beside him. People walk past the blind beggar and drop coins into his hat. A man drops a coin that misses the hat, and the beggar reaches for it. A policeman collars him as he picks it up. The impostor wriggles out of his coat and escapes the policeman. (Edison Company, 1897)
Opening scene shows view from a siding, of an empty railroad track in the countryside. Suddenly a steam locomotive of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad appears on the main track, heading toward the camera. It is pulling a number of passenger cars, and passes the camera, at high speed.
A warship is launched, as men watch from small boats nearby. As the warship comes down the ways, it sets up a wave that jostles the small boats. Men from one boat jump into the river, fully clothed. (Edison Company, 1898)
A man work chopping wood in a yard near a street in residential neighborhood. Another man arrives with a basket in hand. A woman thanks the man chopping wood. Two other men arrive and start a fight . All the men engage in the fight. The woman returns with children and dogs who scamper about. The woman tries to break up the fight by striking the participants with a piece of wood. (Edison Company, 1898)
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