Early motion picture of the lower falls at Yellowstone National Park's Grand Canyon. (Filmed by Edison Company, ca. July 19-25, 1897. Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; January 4,1899)
Period dramatization. David Livingstone reports to British Queen Victoria in Windsor Castle. David Livingstone recounts slave trade run by Arab traders in Zanzibar. Arab traders conduct business in slave market in Zanzibar. Enslaved African natives sit nearby slave traders. An elderly Arab customer inspects an African slave’s physical attributes and health. Elderly Arab customer walks away dissatisfied. Two Arab slave traders argue. A wealthy Arab man inspects African slave’s physical attributes. Arab man checks African slave’s teeth, chest and arms. Arab man agrees to purchase the African slave. Enslaved African women, wearing hijab, sit nearby. David Livingstone speaks to slave traders. Queen Victoria asks David Livingstone a question.
United States Marines advance through jungle in Haiti,West Indies. Officer looks through binoculars. Another officer talks on telephone in the jungle area. Jeep being parked outside building. U.S. Marines get in truck. Truck drives away. Marine troops fall out from their quarters area. Tents in the background. Biplane aircraft in flight over sea. Marines move over mountain trail in jungle in pursuit of rebels. Marines with their native bearers move out along a mountainous trail through dense jungle beside a mountain stream. Armored vehicles move down a native street and stop up to a monument. Marines rush from all sirections. Marines take firing position on field. Marines advance in jungle. Haitian prisoners are marched to prison by the U.S. Marines. Marines guard the prison. Guard locks the prison gate. Prisoners work on rock pile in the prison compound. Marine guard holding rifle walks on prison wall.
Dramatization: Dr. David Livingstone’s party paddles the Zambesi River in Mozambique. A hippopotamus swims nearby. David Livingstone’s canoe flips over, Livingstone falls, with Livingstone’s African attendants swim to an islet of reeds. David Livingstone emerges from river, calls his two attendants. A Nile crocodile opens its mouth. David Livingstone commands his attendants to swim back to land. African attendants swim back to Livingstone, evading the hippopotamus and the Nile crocodile. David Livingstone commands his African attendants sit with him near the river. David Livingstone’s party trek through tall jungle grass in Mozambique, on the way to the Indian Ocean. A hostile tribe confronts the party. Livingstone’s attendants run away. Hostile tribe archers attempt to shoot arrows at Livingstone. Tribesmen confront face-to-face with David Livingstone, who convinces them that he is not an Arab or Portuguese slave trader, but he is a “white man”, a term applied only to the British in Africa at that period. David Livingstone commands the Africans to sit down. David Livingstone admonishes the African tribesmen.
Various scenes, not necessarily in chronological order, associated with the wedding of Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia, daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Prince Ernest Augustus of Brunswick- Luneburg, son of the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland on 24 May, 1913, in Berlin, Germany. King George V of England enters a royal coach followed by Kaiser Wilhelm II. Footman places carriage robe over their legs and they depart, followed by a mounted military rider escort. Another royal coach arrives immediately and Empress Auguste Victoria (Augusta Victoria) of Germany and her daughter, Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, step into it. The coach moves away. View of many men in formal military uniforms on walkway behind. More carriages arriving as many ladies emerge from passageway to the walkway in the background. Princess Viktoria Luise, and Prince Ernest Augustus enter a motorcar. Contingents of mounted German Guards Cuirassiers lead the way for the royal coaches carrying King George V of England and Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Empress Auguste Victoria and Princess Victoria Louise. More contingents of mounted German Guards Cuirassiers follow behind.
Opening scene shows some Italian statesmen and naval officers boarding the Italian royal yacht Trinacria, anchored in the harbor, at Gaeta, Italy. Next, British King Edward VII, Queen Alexandra and daughter, Princess Victoria, are seen posing on the Trinacria's deck, with Italian King Victor Emmanuel III, who is engaged in conversation with the British monarch. Princess Victoria is the center of attention of a group of Italian naval officers. King Edward VII lights a cigarette, throws his match overboard, and smokes while the group continues posing for pictures. He shakes hands with an elder Italian statesman. The two kings converse and Victor Emmanuel III speaks to one of his officials, as Edward VII continues to meet members of the Italian party. (Reportedly, lunch was served in the saloon of the Trinacria, after which King Edward,Queen Alexandra and Princess Victoria returned to the British Royal Yacht, HMY Victoria and Albert III, and sailed to Naples.)
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