Thomas Edison's celluloid print of "Fred Ott's Sneeze".
Illustration of early kinetoscope.
Poster advertisement promoting Thomas Edison's new invention, the kinetoscope.
The 1880s - Comprised of archival photographs & illustrations, historical reenactments & contemporary establishing shots, this educational documentary takes a look back at the people, places, events & culture of the United States during the magical 1880s. .
DO NOT USE Archival still of George Eastman.
1880s Reenactment MSs wealthy white family taking pictures w/ early Kodak camera.
DO NOT USE Archival still of Eastman Dry Plate & Film Company building.
1880s Reenactment MSs wealthy white family taking pictures w/ early Kodak camera.
The 1880s - Comprised of archival photographs & illustrations, historical reenactments & contemporary establishing shots, this educational documentary takes a look back at the people, places, events & culture of the United States during the magical 1880s. .
MS guiding cable rod of trolley raising, touching overhead electric cable; MS rod traveling along cable; TLS/MSs antique Yale Bowl electric trolley car traveling along track.
1880s Reenactment. TLS wealthy couple & friend riding in open horse-driven carriage through countryside.
DO NOT USE Archival still of two men riding penny farthing bicycles. Archival stills of women posing with low-riding bicycles. T
1880s reenactment shots of Erie Canal. LS/MSs men pulling, towing old wood boat along canal.
1880s Reenactment. Great panning LS thick gray smoke sifting above Holstein cows grazing in field, old cemetery w/ large gravestones on other side of stone fence in FG, stop at antique steam engine locomotive train traveling slowly.
MS teenage girl in living room with elderly man, they stand listen to radio. MS as woman walks into house with her grade school aged daughter, the teen and elderly man greet them, asking to relay the health condition of the little girl. MS exchanges as female border (bomb refugee) comes into living room, telling her host that she and her daughter will be leaving.
MS woman taking a seat at the dinner table with her two daughters as they listen to news of war on the radio. MSs as woman reassures her children that the USA is going to win.
DO NOT USE: Credits
NATO Parade (Partial clip) TLS tanks on parade rolling toward camera. MS officials on dais. MSs US missiles on parade. LS battleships on the water in far distance.
Also found in # 535895, 536169 25 Years Ago Today. Themes. Scenes. Schemes. They don't change much over the years. (1934) Here we see teachers in Chicago protesting pay injustice. 5,000 instructors are joined by sympathetic students and parents in a march thru the Loop in angry demonstration. Marchers with banners. Peaceful. Strikes spread across the nation. Jolting the economy. Violence and hardship abound. Presidential intervention brings about settlement of the auto industry strike. Crowds, men walking. F.D.R. (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) sails away on Vincent Astor's yacht for a brief fishing holiday. FDR shakes hands with a man. The President and other men on boat, FDR waves his hat. New cars rolled off the assembly lines...Shiny, 1934 models. Great shorts of workers punching time cards. Good shots of men in factory, assembling automobiles, resting and eating lunch.
Funeral Procession for WWI Unknown Soldier - Archival footage as procession moves into Arlington National Cemetery in front of the newly dedicated Memorial Amphitheater.
DO NOT USE: Title Card: The United States Air Force Presents Another Day of War
LS sunrise over the South China Sea, beach seen in FG. MS rooster crowing on front stoop of house. GV water buffalo grazing. MS tropical bird on branch of tropical plant. LS rice paddy w/Vietnamese farmer in FG tending to crops.
MS USAF man sleeping on cot under mosquito net, alarm clock on table begins to ring, man wakes & sits at edge of bed rubbing his eyes. MCU two airmen washing in communal military camp shower. GV airfield w/men approaching plane, ready for duty. CU young airman using hand to wipe sweat from his brow. GV airmen getting to work on plane.
GV south Vietnamese street scene with man & woman loading large basket onto back of horse drawn cart. MS/GV busy street w/people carting goods or walking. LS military checkpoint with line of motorbikes rolling through. TLS street showing Vietnamese men with ID badges pinned to shirts moving toward camera in FG & military vehicles & US personnel moving in BG.