DO NOT SELL Voiceover. The Innocent Years - Part Two. Fashion styles among wealthy women.
MSs wealthy and well-to-do white adults pedestrians walking along streets of New York City (women are fancily dressed in furs and fine clothes, the men in suits and top hats).
DO NOT USE Fiction film set in 1900. Women walk along street, zoom into shop window. Shots of catalogue images of women's clothes.
Fashion. MS/CUs white woman trying on leather boot in shoe store. MSs white women crowding clothing store, making the saleswomen hustle. MS white women in parlor, trying on corset, slip and undergarments. Women trying on hats in a mirror. MSs wealthy white women in fancy dress walking through park or sitting at cafes or drinking tea or posing in mirrors or sitting for a private modeling show.
DO NOT SELL Voiceover. The Innocent Years - Part Two. The suffragette movement. TLS/MSs suffragettes marching in New York City, police officer (cops) keeping the rabble in line; MS/CUs Suffragettes posing for camera.
DO NOT SELL Voiceover. The Innocent Years - Part Two. Entertainment, Vaudeville
DO NOT USE Fiction film set in 1900. People arriving at theater.
MS actress LILLIAN RUSSELL posing for camera in backstage dressing room.
Fiction film set in 1900 of vaudeville performers / entertainers on stage - dancers in silly costumes.
Vaudeville performers / entertainers on stage - Acrobats.
DO NOT SELL Voiceover. The Innocent Years - Part Two. Natural disasters, San Francisco Earthquake Astounding newsreel of the aftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906. People wandering along the smoky piles of rubble, carriages passing dead horses in streets. Traveling shots of the devastation. Women in long skirts sitting on stoops of destroyed homes, etc; mass destruction, the city laid waste.
DO NOT SELL Voiceover. The Innocent Years - Part Two. 1912 Campaign of Taft, Roosevelt & Wilson THEODORE ROOSEVELT returning to America: TLS steamship sailing in Hudson, MSs Teddy Roosevelt doffing hat from boat; MS TR and entourage in NYC, followed by shots of parade in his honor, cops pushing crowds back; Teddy takes to stage bedecked in American flags and streamers. Montage of Theodore Roosevelt campaigning for Progressive Bull Moose Party, 1912 (rides trains and cars, gives speeches, meets and greets voters). TLS steps of the Capitol Building, Ford Model T automobiles driving in FG (really nice shot). MSs WOODROW WILSON and WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT on Inauguration Day, 1913. They shake hands, get into car, drive to ceremony through very crowded streets. EST shots Wilson home in Princeton, New Jersey, MSs Woodrow Wilson shaking hands & talking w/ guests at a political function in his backyard. MSs Mr. Wilson meeting w/ aides & advisors. LS White House. MSs Mr. Wilson meeting with diplomats in office. Wilson sigining papers.
DO NOT SELL Voiceover. The Innocent Years - Part Two. Entertainment, Motion Pictures
MS white woman cranking Mutoscope. CU inside loaded machine; CU "animated" images of men shaking hands (illusion of motion through succession of stills). MS man peering into nickelodeon, watching film of female dancer.
MSs inventor THOMAS EDISON at Menlo Park home, walking about or talking with his smiling crew of lackeys. MS white man cranking Vitascope projector
Excerpt from "The Great Train Robbery" (1908).
TLS/MSs behind the scenes at motion picture movie shoots (shifty sets, hammy actors in heavy makeup and costume, hand-cranked cameras, directors in perpetual motion; includes funny shots of thief about to kidnap the heroine when a set wall collapses on top of him).
MSs film production crew shooting Old West battle scene, the director losing his nut, going crazy.
MS people under vestibule of nickelodeon.
DO NOT USE: Fiction film set in 1910. People in theater.
Excerpts from early fiction film starring MARY PICKFORD
Excerpts from early fiction film LILLIAN GISH
Excerpts from early fiction film Claire McDowell
MSs white men (projectionists) hand-cranking projectors in booths.