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Early fictional film depicting the termination of the life of Mary, Queen of Scots.

Historic tableau presentation of the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. The role of Mary is played by Robert Thomae. The film employs stop action to substitute a dummy for the Queen. Filmed at Edison's Laboratory in New Jersey.

Date: 1895, August 28
Duration: 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071506
Seminary girls pillow fight

Five Seminary girls in white night dresses engage in a pillow fight. A woman (teacher) enters the room and admonishes them.The girls try to hide. One tries to crawl under a bed, but the woman grabs her by the feet and pulls her out. (Filmed April, 1897, in Edison Studio, New Jersey.)

Date: 1897, April
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071524
Pioneering use of motion pictures for advertising (cigarettes)

Early advertising: Admiral Cigarette (1897) in the United States. A commercial. Four men in various costumes sit and converse in front of a billboard for Admiral Cigarettes. The billboard fills the entire background. Beside them is a large box, marked Admiral Cigarettes. A cross section of men: one dressed as an American Indian, with feather headdress, another a military outfit, a third, as Uncle Sam in striped pants, and the fourth (with pork-chop whiskers) is in a suit, vest, tie, and hat. Suddenly, the box pops open and a woman in tight-fitting costume emerges. She hands out cigarettes to the men and scatters dozens of cigarettes in front of them. She and the men smoke cigarettes and the men unfurl a banner saying, "We all smoke." (Edison Studio, New Jersey)

Date: 1897, July
Duration: 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071539
Models display machine washable dresses including short pants suits, baby dresses and mini disco dresses in Manhattan.

Models display machine washable dresses in Manhattan, New York. The models walk on a ramp displaying dresses including mini skirts, culottes, short pants suits, tunic tops, striped skirts, baby dresses and mini disco dresses. All of them are of cotton and washable synthetics. Photographers take photos. Audience sitting at a dining table.

Date: 1967, April 11
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071760
Arriving Immigrants to America holding their luggage leave processing building at Ellis Island and enter ferries to Manhattan

Arriving immigrants being processed at Ellis Island, New York City on 9 May, 1906. Men, women, and children immigrants holding their luggage stream out of the processing building and, guided by immigration officials, enter ferries to take them to the Battery on Manhattan Island.

Date: 1906, May 9
Duration: 3 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073417
Passengers come down gangway of SS Siboney at Jersey City's harbor and have baggage passed through customs (WW2)

SS Siboney of American Export Lines arrives at Jersey City's harbor in New Jersey. Ship docks at pier. Passengers, including many Jewish migrants and refugees fleeing Nazi German persecution in Europe in World War II, come down a gangway having baggage passed through customs.

Date: 1941, January
Duration: 3 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074119