50th Anniversary of cinema, in 1944, recalls historic footage and movies from the early 1900s. Thomas Edison with Henry Ford together using a motion picture movie camera to create a movie. Mrs Edison displays Kinetoscope. Close-up view of Kinetoscope machine operating. View of vintage film images of lower Broadway in New York City in 1896 with busy traffic on streets of pedestrians, horses, and horse-drawn streetcar. Next scene shows Theodore Roosevelt and the "Rough Riders" (1st United States Volunteer Cavalry) in parade in New York City on return from Cuba after the Spanish-American War in 1898. Next is seen the inauguration parade for President Theodore Roosevelt on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC in 1905. Next series of scenes shows American women in the early 20th century. Women workers punching time clock at an industrial factory in the 1910s or 1920s. Women in dresses emerging from a building perhaps after a work shift circa early 1900s. An early beauty pageant circa 1910 with participants in swim suits. Famous star actress and singer Lillian Russell in a movie scene. Film actor William S Hart appearing in an early movie. Two well dressed women sitting in an early automobile as a man starts it up and drives away. Busy scenes of car and pedestrian traffic, and horse-drawn streetcars on Market street in San Francisco, California circa 1910. Silent movie stars Clara Kimball Young and Sidney Drew together in a movie scene. Famous movie star actress Pearl White in a daring stunt scene, and Ruth Roland performing a stunt leaping from a moving railroad train onto a rope ladder suspended from an airplane, and then riding on a railroad car careening out of control down a mountain side in an early Hollywood movie.
A motion picture cameraman uses a hand cranked camera on tripod to film an indoor office scene. Motion picture film processing. Film is brought out of development tanks and then wound on large spindles to dry. Film technicians thread motion picture film onto printers or editors.
View of American countryside. River runs through farm fields. American farmer plows a farm field. He uses a manual plow attached to two horses.
A young woman in long-sleeved dress, wearing high button shoes and a cotton bonnet, fills a metal bucket with well water using a hand pump outside her house. When a young man in overalls and a hat, carrying his own bucket, approaches, the woman shakes her fist at him, and then takes her bucket of water into the house. The young man begins to pump water into his bucket. Scene shifts to the kitchen of the house, into which the young woman carries her bucket of water. She speaks with an older woman who is drying a glass. Other glass items sit on the kitchen table. The woman drying the glass is startled and drops it when the young woman begins to pour water directly from her bucket into a tea kettle on their wood-burning cooking stove. The kitchen decor is typical for the early part of the 20th century. The wall is covered in wallpaper. A decorative calendar and a dustpan hang on the wall. A large coffee pot sits on the very top of the stove.
View of a busy street in Washington DC. U.S. Capitol in background. Cars and trams or trolleys on road. View of the White House. Pond in front of it. Dirt road turn around at White House entrace. Men and children in a hall of The White house. Lit chandeliers hang from ceiling.
Senator (and future U.S. President) Warren Harding with other dignitaries riding in a car. Man in the front seat talks to Harding. Appears to be Henry Ford.
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