Scenes from a night time parade and anti-communist demonstration held by supporters of Mayor Frank Hague in Jersey City, New Jersey. The crowd of people march on a street and jam Journal Square. They carry American flags and banners in the nighttime parade. The supporters set off fireworks during the demonstration. A large lit banner reads, "Reds Stay Out of USA" as spinning fireworks and aerial fireworks are launched behind it.
A man exercises with wand in the U.S. Filmed in Thomas Edison's Black Maria studio, West Orange, New Jersey, USA.
Spanish dancer Carmencita performs dancing routines while being filmed by Edison Company cameraman. Reportedly she was the first woman to be featured in an Edison Company film. This sequence was filmed at Edison's Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey, USA
Two cats fight in a boxing ring. Cats wearing boxing gloves as they fight. Early moving images filmed in Edison's Black Maria studio, West Orange, New Jersey, USA
Scene from fight between James J. Corbett, former champion of the world (AKA "Gentleman Jim" Corbett) and Peter Courtney, staged and recorded at the Edison Studio in West Orange, New Jersey, U.S.A..
The Glenroy Brothers stage a choreographed comic boxing match in which they manage to miss as they swing at each other, and do cartwheels and the like. Filmed at Edison's Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey, USA
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