A performance on the flying rings, by Gymnast and contortionist, Luis Martinetti of the Martinetti Brothers. Filmed on October 11, 1894, in Edison's Black Maria studio, West Orange, New Jersey, United States.
Sharpshooter Annie Oakley, performer with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, displays her skills with a Marlin lever action rifle, by rapid fire shooting of glass balls on a board and coins tossed into the air. She is assisted in her demonstration by husband, Frank Butler. Filmed at the Edison Studio in West Orange, New Jersey, United States
Bandmaster, Frank Baldwin, and musicians from cast of the show, "A Milk White Flag,"perform. The musicians are: A.D.. Dorsch, E.P. Brown, J.F. Boardman, George Goddard, E.F. Balch, Paul Pfarr. Fred W. Boardman, and William Cushing, Filmed at Edison studio in New Jersey.
People riding on the famous water chute ride at Paul Boyton's Water World,Bergen Beach, Coney Island, New York. Flags fly over the structure. Large vehicles carry passengers up to to the launching point, where they board small boats and ride down on a flume of water. Photographed by Edison Company photographers using a portable camera.
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)
Police are seen climbing aboard a horse-drawn police wagon. It appears to carry as many as a dozen of them as it drives away. (Filmed by Edison Company, 1897)
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