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West Orange New Jersey USA 1891 stock footage and images

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Early Edison kinetoscopic moving image known as "The Sneeze," featuring Edison's assistant Fred Ott sneezing

Edison kinetoscopic record of a man, Fred Ott, sneezing. The record is commonly known as "The Sneeze." It was filmed at the Black Maria studio of the Edison Manufacturing Company in West Orange, New Jersey. Fred Ott takes a pinch of snuff and then sneezes.

Date: 1894, January 7
Duration: 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071486
Strong Man, Eugen Sandow, demonstrates his physique.

Celebrated Strong Man, Friedrich Muller (Stage name: Eugen Sandow), one of the first famous bodybuilders, displays his body building physique: flexing his biceps, abdominal muscles and triceps and other muscles, for the Edison Company cameraman in Edison's Black Maria studio at West Orange, New Jersey.

Date: 1894, March 6
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071488
Venezuelan slack wire walker Juan Caicedo performs in backyard

Famous Venezuelan slack wire walker, Juan A. Caicedo, called the "King of the Wire", performs before Edison cameraman, outdoors, on the grounds of the Edison Laboratory at West Orange, New Jersey

Date: 1894
Duration: 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071491
The Mikado dance performed by three Japanese girls

Three Japanese girls (the Sarashe Sisters) perform the Mikado Dance. Dressed in traditional costumes, they perform the dance with ribbons and fans. Filmed at the Edison studio in West Orange, New Jersey, United States.

Date: 1894, November
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071501
Early filmmaking in Thomas Alva Edison’s Black Maria studio

A wall clock hanging on top of a window. Camera shows American inventor Thomas Alva Edison’s laboratory. Glass laboratory bottles and tubes on display. Thomas Alva Edison shows lightbulbs to colleagues. A carbon filament light bulb lights up. Camera moves closer to show the glowing carbon filament inside the lamp. Early filmmaking in the United States. A man cranks a Kinetograph, the first movie camera invented by Edison. A belly dancer performs in one of Edison’s early films. A film rolling. A boxing match filmed by Thomas Edison. A cameraman records the boxing match inside Edison’s Black Maria film studio in West Orange, New Jersey. Exteriors of the Black Maria studio showing the turntable and wheels underneath. 19th century women wearing summer dresses strolling in film captured by Edison. Cameramen sent by Edison films people on the beach and in amusement park rides. Edison having lunch with other inventors Henry Ford Sr., Harvey Firestone Sr., and Alexander Graham Bell. View of Edison’s study. A light bulb is turned off.

Date: 1894
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080183
Specialists at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation help the disabled and handicapped to recover.

Handicapped and disabled people at Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, West Orange, New Jersey. A musician who met with a swimming pool accident plays an instrument with sticks. A physically handicapped boy reads a book. A man at the center is tested on Kohs block intelligence test. A woman puts on makeup after recovering from an accident. The founder, Dr. Henry Kessler talks about special training to be given to the patients to recover from disabilities. Specialists including physical therapists at Kessler Institute help the disabled recover. Disabled clients receiving therapy. A new leg is given to a woman who met with an accident and she takes her first step. Kessler specialist helps the woman to walk again properly.

Date: 1974
Duration: 4 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021549