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Buffalo Dance

1894

Long before Hollywood started painting white men red and dressing them as 'Injuns' Edison's company was using the genuine article! Featuring for what is believed to be the Native Americans first appearance before a motion picture camera 'Buffalo Dance' features genuine members of the Sioux Tribe dressed in full war paint and costume! The dancers are believed to be veteran members of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Filmed again at the Black Maria studios by both Dickson and Heise the 'Buffalo Dance' warriors were named as Hair Coat, Parts His Hair and Last Horse. Its quite strange seeing these movies at first they all stand around waiting to begin and as they start some of the dancers look at the camera in an almost sad way at having lost their way of life.

5.0

Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke

1896

Carmaux is in south-central France, near the Tarn River. As a brick of coke, about four feet high and three feet wide, is gradually pushed out of a smelter into a yard, one worker sprays it with water from a hose while two workers with long metal rakes wait to spread it out. Other workers buzz in and out of the foreground of the stationary camera. Atop the first level of the brick smelter, workers push full carts of coal along a track.

6.6

Mechanical Principles

1930

Close up we see pistons move up and down or side to side. Pendulums sway, the small parts of machinery move. Gears drive larger wheels. Gears within gears spin. Shafts turn some mechanism that is out of sight. Screws revolve and move other gears; a bit rotates. More subtle mechanisms move other mechanical parts for unknown purposes. Weights rise and fall. The movements, underscored by sound, are rhythmic. Circles, squares, rods, and teeth are in constant and sometimes asymmetrical motion. These human-made mechanical bits seem benign and reassuring.

4.4

Arrivée en voiture

1896

A horse-drawn carriage stops in front of a villa. The residents greet the newcomers, as the coach driver unloads baggages.

4.2

Les souverains et les invités se rendant au sacre (escalier rouge)

1896

Sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna and their suite slowly walk down a staircase, preceded by a company of cuirassiers.

4.7

Japanese Sword Fencing

1897

The earliest surviving Japanese film showing the martial art of kendo.

5.7

Danse Fleur de Lotus

1897

Serpentine dance.

5.2

The Pyramids (Overview)

1897

A view of the Great Sphinx with two of Giza's pyramids in the background. A caravan passes the scene.

4.2

Concours de bébés

1896

A crowd of young children dance around.

4.0

Cuirassiers on Horseback

1896

Filmed in 1896 by the Lumière brothers, this short actuality captures a dramatic cavalry charge by cuirassiers — heavily armed horsemen in traditional military uniforms. The riders gallop across open ground directly toward the camera, creating an energetic and imposing image that thrilled early audiences with its sense of motion and spectacle.

4.8

Woodcutters

1896

Three men are chopping and transporting firewood, among passers-by, on a square in Lausanne.

4.5

Budapest, pont suspendu

1896

A Lumière Brothers film showing a street scene in Budapest.

6.2

To Fly!

1976

Early IMAX documentary about the development of human flight.

5.7

The Little Girl and Her Cat

1899

A little girl sits at a table, holding a container of what appears to be some sort of food. Suddenly there's a flash of movement: a tortoiseshell cat, with long hair and a very furry tail, has leapt onto the table.

2.8

Trick Bears

1899

Circus bears showing their tricks.

5.2

New Brooklyn to New York via Brooklyn Bridge, No. 2

1899

“This is a new negative showing the entire trip from Brooklyn to New York, in which the immense towers stand out clear and distinct against the sky. Positively the best picture of the Brooklyn Bridge yet secured.” (Edison film catalog)

3.5

Lower Falls, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone Park

1899

Probably part of the "Alaska and Yellowstone National Park Series" in the "Northern Pacific Railway Series"

3.0

'Columbia' Winning the Cup

1899

This picture shows the Columbia crossing the line, leading the Shamrock by about 1/2 mile. The Shamrock is plainly seen in the distance and she later comes up and crosses the line in the same picture.

3.5

Buffalo Stockyards

1897

From Edison films catalog: A long line of horses, mules and ponies are led, driven and ridden into the yards, where they are sold and distributed.

4.8

Entrée d'une noce à l'église

1897

A marriage procession following the bride and her father enter a church.

Genre	Documentary
Production Companies	American Mutoscope & Biograph
Production Ccountries	United States of America

Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge

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