Frederick S. Armitage

Time-lapse photography showing the one month-long demolition of the Star Theatre in New York.

29 de abr. de 1901

Special effects film with a train double exposed on the negative, creating a ghostly image.

21 de jan. de 1903

Two sets of images are superimposed. From the side, we see a two-masted ship. Across the deck walks a skeleton. It sits down, its legs akimbo. The ...

21 de dez. de 1900

“The filmmaker took several different scenes shot earlier between 1896 and 1899 and double-printed two sets of images together to create a new arti...

01 de jan. de 1900

A combination of the picture entitled "The Ballet of the Ghosts," and a surf scene; the resulting effect being that the ghostly figures rise up out...

21 de dez. de 1900

Seeing New York by Yacht.

22 de set. de 1903

A woman in ballet slippers wearing a large white hat and a long white dress - with ruffles, puffy sleeves and petticoats - dances across water with...

21 de dez. de 1900

Film taken from a boat heading down the Hudson is shown at varying speeds, often giving a sense of rapid transit.

22 de mar. de 1903

From a single camera position, two young women are photographed lighting a cigarette. After several puffs, one of the young ladies becomes faint, a...

03 de jun. de 1899

The scene opens with a salesman displaying corsets to the buyer of a country store. He calls in a female model and tries a corset on her. While the...

26 de jun. de 1899

Two Chinese men (in full regalia) and an American-style tough are sitting at a table, eating out of bowls, all of them using chop sticks; The Ameri...

25 de nov. de 1900

In this picture there is a limited amount of action in the pose. As the curtains are drawn aside the shell appears shut. It gradually opens, disclo...

01 de jun. de 1901

Stage star Anna Held (1872-1918) riffs on her once-famous scene from the comedy Papa's Wife (1899-1901) featuring a naif getting tipsy on her first...

23 de mai. de 1901

Filming of a character sketch by the well-known vaudevillian Charles E. Grapewin. On a bare stage backed by a dark curtain, a man dressed in a thre...

21 de nov. de 1900

A splendid picture of the remarkable centrifuge railroad at Coney Island in which the car makes a complete circle in its course around the track, c...

21 de set. de 1900

The film is part of Eye Filmmuseum’s Mutoscope and Biograph Collection. This collection consists of about 200 films preserved on their original 68 ...

16 de fev. de 1898

The film shows a parade down Fifth Avenue, New York. In the foreground many children, both black and white, can be seen following alongside the par...

01 de abr. de 1901

In this short film, a white piece of wall bisects the screen; There are two different rooms on either side of the dividing line, but one hilarious ...

22 de mai. de 1903

A filmed record of a fan dancer performing a dance using two white sheets suspended from poles which she frantically twirls around herself to creat...

14 de abr. de 1903

An interesting view of Central Park before there was a skyline of buildings. All along the length of the park on both sides and to the north, with ...

01 de fev. de 1900

This is a single camera position film of muscle-flexing exercises by a professional physical culturist. The expansion, contraction, and flexing of ...

01 de jan. de 1904

In this spirited and suggestive film, an aggressive young man is drenched in rich, high-protein comeuppance, after he attempts to tell a dairymaid ...

01 de jan. de 1899

A portly clubman comes home after a social session considerably the worse for the wear. In the hall he encounters a suit of armor which has all the...

01 de jan. de 1899

The milk of human unkindness flows in this 1899 revenge comedy from the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, in which a put-upon dairymaid throws...

01 de jan. de 1899

Willie puts a pack of firecrackers in the flour which Nora is preparing for her dough. A policeman comes in and is entertained by Nora. Willie in t...

01 de jul. de 1901