Host Lee Marvin. The Triple span arch Eads Bridge at St. Louis, connecting St. Louis and East St. Louis, Illinois. View of the bridge spanning the Mississippi River. View of the Eads Bridge with the St. Louis Arch in the background. Boat passes under the bridge. Aerial views of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. Portraits of John Augustus Roebling, then of his son, Washington, and his wife Emily Warren Roebling, and the story of how he gave her his instructions on how to build the bridge by tapping on her arm, due to his caisson illness. Views of the Brooklyn bridge from various angles. Early moving image footage of the nearby Williamsburg Bridge, still under construction and not yet completed, shot in 1902. The scene shows recent fire damage to the Williamsburg Bridge. Next scene shows September 22, 1899 Edison footage of the Brooklyn Bridge taken aboard a moving train moving toward the bridge.
Paper print. Early motion picture made in the United States. Dramatization depicts: a girl and a boy stand outside a house. They communicate through a can string telephone. They rig it up to the hen house. Thief enters hen house. Children inform their parents about the thief. They and police catch the thief.
Paper print. Early motion picture made in the United States. Dramatization depicts: man drinks from a bottle and falls down drunk. A woman drinks from a small bucket and gets drunk. Numerous persons drink from containers and accidentally get drunk.
Paper print. Early motion picture made in the United States. Dramatization depicts: men and women in house, talking. Man holding a document shares good news. Next scene is at a dock as the man boards a large masted sailing ship along with others. They work aboard ship. The ship takes on water and sailors and captain leave in a rescue rowboat or tender, as man and woman remain on ship. They build a raft and are seen at sea. They make it safely to shore, by large rocks. The woman is captured by renegade sailors and placed in their boat. Her companion saves her while the renegades are asleep, and rows her away to safety aboard a passing ship. Back home again, everyone celebrates the birth of a baby.
Paper print. Early motion picture made in United States. Civil War era dramatization. Slave mounted on horseback arrives at a house. He calls warning that Union troops are coming. The household gathers basket and he climbs up a tree to hide it. Union troops arrive but soon leave. The resident family arrives and celebrate that they suffered no loss.
Paper print. Early motion picture made in United States. Woman argues with her mother and then runs from home to theater stage door, where she wrings her hands before deciding to enter. She dresses in costume to perform but is in anguish about it. Manager tells her to leave. She meets her mother as she leaves the theater stage door. Back home again, woman and mother continue to be troubled
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