American Mutoscope Biograph Movies

Basically, all we see is a group of kids of varying ages bouncing toy balls on the classroom floor then throwing them up in the air.

Automobile Race for the Vanderbilt Cup

A struggling young seamstress supports her elderly parents by working at home. The landlord offers free rent for sex, but she declines. He threatens f...

A couple are making love beneath the window of a cranky old gentleman. There is a handsome window garden above them filled with plants and flowers. Th...

View of funeral procession and military parade at funeral for Hiram Cronk, who at the time of his death was the oldest surviving veteran of the War of...

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 pay...

A group of thieves are building a fake coffin as part of a plan to steal a jewel case filled with extravagant and expensive gems. With one of the thie...

A splendid scene, showing a large number of curious Filipino boats being worked on the Pasig River near Manila by natives. The picture is unusually fi...

Scenes of Theodore Roosevelt at the Jamestown Exposition in Norfolk, Virginia, in April and June, 1907, participating in Jamestown's tercentennial cel...

An African American family eats watermelons.

"This is a very laughable scene. A guest in a hotel who has retired, is disturbed in his slumbers by a monkey, which enters through the window and goe...

We have just received from our operators accompanying President Roosevelt on his great tour of the Pacific Coast, a splendid series of films covering...

his film was shot in an alley of San Francisco's Chinatown on Saturday, September 15, 1900, at midday. The topography of the site (sloping down to the...

This short film, done by The American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, shows the historical legend of the three men - two drums and a fife player - forev...

Immigrants and boats departing and arriving at Ellis Island.

Showing the employees leaving the factory at noon.

Of the thousand and more men who left New York for the Cuban Campaign, scarcely three hundred were able to shoulder their rifles to march before the B...

This picture was taken in front of Gen. Wheeler's headquarters at Camp Wikoff during Gen. Alger's tour of inspection of the camp. The two distinguishe...

Military subjects were consistent crowd-pleasers, and this film showing a near fatal accident was especially popular.

At the Charles River Speedway in Allston (Boston Massachusetts),cyclists on six-man bikes hold a race.