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- This short film, one of the first to use camera tricks, depicts the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
- Lost film that depicts the burning of Joan of Arc. Only fragments of it still exist in the Centre Jeanne d'Arc in Orléans and in the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa.
- The Duke of Guise is worried about the king's evil intentions. A lady warns the duke, considering it appropriate that he should not go to the council. The king summons him and the guards stab him.
- Charlotte Corday murders Marat while he is bathing.
- A crowd of spectators listen to President William McKinley's speech during his inauguration ceremony outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 4, 1897.
- The Jewish ex-officer Alfred Dreyfus's degradation. He stands in a military quadrant and the Adjutant proceeds to tear off his medals; Dreyfus is compelled to pass in front of the troops in disgrace.
- Dictation of the statement of Captain Dreyfus in reference to the Dreyfus Affair, a political scandal that rocked France from 1894 to 1906.
- One of eleven installments of The Dreyfus Affair (L'affaire Dreyfus), a docudrama reconstructing the historical Dreyfus Affair, which was still playing out as the series was being filmed.
- Short war film dramatizing the final engagement of the Shangani Patrol and the death of Major Allan Wilson and his men in Rhodesia in 1893.
- The troops turn into the Prado from a side street, where a triumphal arch is erected by the Cubans. General Brooke, the Military Governor of Cuba, would not allow it to be finished or any demonstrations of any kind. The crowded streets include First Texas troops. Cubans are seen lounging in the foreground. The buildings are all low stone structures, with heavy barred windows, from which are displayed small Cuban flags.
- A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.
- In China at the turn of the 20th century there was a rebel group called the Society of the Harmonious Fist, otherwise known as Boxers. They attacked westerners and any Chinese who associated with Westerners. In this short, a Chinese government executioner prepares to behead a captured Boxer rebel.
- Scene from the second act of The Prince of Wales Theatre production.
- This early docudrama shows Auburn Prison and recreates the electrocution of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley of the United States. Some versions offer additional footage at the beginning which shows McKinley on the day of his assassination followed by scenes from his funeral.
- This film is part of the Mitchell and Kenyon collection - an amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century. Wave to Morecambe's seasiders in 1901, courtesy of this Mitchell and Kenyon tracking shot.
- A short documentary registering the meeting between two aviation pioneers: the Brazilian Santos Dumont and the Briton Charles Rolls. In it, Dumont presents his ideas for a future balloon, showing to Rolls the concept of such invention and the project with his notes, all of which the other man delightfully enjoys.
- A re-enactment using actors of the recent coronation of Britain's King Edward VII.
- This picture depicts the eruption of the volcano by which over 30,000 souls were hurled into eternity. The numerous explosions which took place during the eruption are plain to be seen. Thousands upon thousands of tons of molten lava, sand, rocks and steam are thrown high in the air and descend with crushing force upon the unfortunate inhabitants of the doomed city of St. Pierre. This is the worst calamity which occurred since a similar eruption by Mt. Vesuvius when Pompeii was destroyed.
- During a game of hide and seek a bride hides in a chest and is found 30 years later.
- A small group of men turn on what appears to be a generator. As the rotary spins, the men make adjustments to the machine and check its operations.
- The king is dead. Long live the king. French people, as part of tradition, treated the heir to the throne with these words. When the words sounded in honor of Louis XIV, he was hardly 5 years old.
- The only known film footage of Marcel Proust (identified by Canadian professor Jean-Pierre Sirois-Trahan) shows the French writer at a wedding as he descends a staircase unaccompanied, speedily walking past the slower couples to his right.
- The Japanese entered China in 1900 as part of the Eight-Nation Alliance which brought 20,000 armed troops to quell the Boxer Rebellion, and captured Beijing on August 14 of that year; an "orgy" of looting, rape, and slaughter reportedly ensued, perpetrated by troops of all nations, with the Japanese proving particularly adept at the summary decapitation of any and all suspected of being Boxers. As in the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-5, Japan's participation in the 1900 invasion was celebrated in numerous woodblock prints, as well as lithographs and other emergent media including film, which was also used to capture a series of brutal beheadings. This continued with the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5, which stemmed largely from a massive influx of Russian troops in 1900, ostensibly as a defence against the Boxers. but also as an occupation of territory, Many decapitation films were projected in medical departments of Tokyo universities, as physiological studies.
- Originally 70 minutes in running time, only 17 minutes of the world's first full-length narrative feature film survived in stills and other fragments and tell the story of Ned Kelly, an infamous 19th-century Australian outlaw.
- Footage shot not long after the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco is edited together so that more than one scene and more than one vantage are included. We see fire raging. We see burned-out buildings, piles of rubble, and buildings with only one wall standing. People stand and watch; others walk purposely through the debris. A carriage passes; the camera pans the desolation. A horse-drawn cart is laden with a family's remaining possessions. A sign hangs outside one building: "A little disfigured but still in business. Men Wanted."
- Footage of the devastation caused by the earthquake and fires that, in the words of Jack London, "completely destroyed" San Francisco on the morning of April 18th, 1906.
- Depicting well-known incidents in the life of Jesus Christ, this milestone of early cinema won world fame, huge audiences and a screen life of decades when most secular films of the time measured their commercial life in weeks.
- A Catholic conspirator is caught before he can blow up Parliament.
- France, at the end of the sixteenth century. Henry III decided to eliminate his rival, the Duke of Guise, and, therefore, calls him in the castle of Blois. The mistress of the duke, warned of the King's intentions, informs him, but the noble, sure of his own authority, went there anyway. In Cabinet-Vieux castle Duke is stabbed by guards of the King, while he attends the murder hidden behind the curtains. Eventually, Henry III does burn the duke body to discard.
- The first Russian narrative film.
- Great historic picture of The Tea Party in Boston Harbor, 1773.
- The film captures life on Crow Agency, Crow Fair and a recreation of the Battle of Little Big Horn featuring four of Custer's Crow scouts.
- Shakespeare's historical tragedy of the rise and fall of Julius Caesar, told in fifteen scenes.
- The story of the ill-fated love affair between Marc Antony and Cleopatra.
- Count Ugolino is sent to hell and Dante tells the story of how he deserves his place.
- Shows his early years in Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois; the Lincoln - Douglas debates; Judge Lincoln refusing a pro-slavery office; granting a pardon to sleeping picket; and his assassination.
- This beautiful and historic picture depicts an incident which took place in Paris when Cardinal Richelieu was in power, and when dueling was considered a capital offense. In the opening scene we see a notice which has just been posted up in the public square stating that one Bouteville and his accomplices are guilty of treason in violating the law, and condemning them to death in expiation of their offense. The latter reads the notice and treats it as a huge joke; so tears it down, putting in its place another poster challenging the Baron Bevron and his friends to a duel with sword and dagger at noon on the following day in the Place Royal. The Baron and his friends read the challenge, and the former, adding underneath the words, "We will be there," signs his name and goes off in high glee. At the appointed time the enemies meet, and in the presence of their friends and admirers fight an interesting duel. Both sides show great skill in the use of the foils, but gradually they drop out, mortally wounded, one by one, until Baron Bevron and one companion stand alone the victors of the hour, having killed Bouteville and his comrades. Realizing that they have broken the law and must pay the penalty, they make a hasty departure from the scene of the duel, and we next see them surrounded by their friends, drinking and making merry in honor of their victory. All at once, however, a messenger comes to warn them that the police are on their track; so quickly mounting their horses, they flee to the woods. But their hiding place is soon discovered, and the officers swoop down on them, making all hands prisoners. The two brave fellows face their doom, and when they are condemned to die they walk to the gallows to pay the penalty. As they are about to mount the platform, the cardinal is borne on the scene in a sedan chair, and when the friends of the condemned men plead for their release he brushes them aside and orders the execution to take place. He coolly passes on while in the presence of the multitude on the square, the two brave fellows place their heads on the block and pay the price of their folly.
- The director Mario Gallo made the first film with an argument from Argentina, although the opinions of scholars are not coincident as to their temporal order.
- The country writhing under the yoke of British subjection. The infant colonies, restless and fretful at the continual tyranny of the mother country, throw down the plow to take up the sword. Moll Pitcher becomes a soldier for love of country and husband. The guns of Proctor's artillery rapidly driven up a hill. The battle is in progress. In the heat of the battle the soldiers throw off their coats and tear off their shirts working barefooted and with nothing on but their trousers. Some fall down dead, others wounded. During the battle Molly rushes down the mountain bringing water to the hard-working soldiers. Molly's husband, who is a cannoneer, receives a shot in the head and falls in front of the cannon. The officers in command, having no man to take his place, six men having been killed or wounded, order the cannon removed. Molly coming from the spring sees her husband fall, hears the order and dropping her bucket, seizes the hammer from his lifeless hands, declaring she would take his place and avenge his death. Entering the sponge into the mouth of the smoking cannon, she performs to admiration the duties of the most expert artillerymen, while the shouts of soldiers ring along the line. The night ends the battle. General Washington, always alive to any act of bravery or self-sacrifice, commended Molly and conferred upon her the rank of sergeant. Taps. Burning camp fires are seen.
- The scene of this beautifully colored film is laid in that period of the French Revolution, showing the tragic ending of Charlotte Corday, who, through her iron nerve, planned to rid France of Marat, one of the leaders of the revolution, because be represents in her mind the party responsible for so many crimes. Charlotte Corday was born in Normandy of noble parentage, and was a girl of striking beauty and a powerful personality. Being highly educated, she made a close study of current polities, and was in sympathy with a party known as the Girondins, whose power was overthrown. While living at Caen she met and talked over conditions with Barbarous, a leader of the party, and. through him she learned that Marat was an enemy to France, so takes it upon herself to avenge the death of many who were being sent to the guillotine every day. She comes to Paris, where she writes to Marat, begging him to grant her an audience, and stating that she has important information to reveal, but he would not see her. Finally she goes to his home, and when she is refused admittance, forces her way in and presents herself to Marat, who is seated in a bathtub. She tells him the names of the men at Caen who are affiliated with the Girondist party, and as he eagerly writes them down, mentioning that they will die on the guillotine, she plunges a knife into his heart, killing him instantly. The servants and police rush in and drag her to jail through the clamoring mob who are eager to strike her down. Taken then to the tribunal of justice, she makes a confession of her guilt and is condemned to die. Listening to her doom with cold indifference, she is then taken back to prison, and we next see her on her way to the guillotine, followed by a mob which howls with fury as the beautiful girl bravely mounts the steps and stands erect, her face pale, her eyes steady, facing death like a soldier. Laying her beautiful head on the block, in an instant all is over with Charlotte Corday.
- Barbara Frietchie's defense of the American flag and the death of a Union soldier in battle bring a tribute from both sides.
- This richly colored picture revives an interesting incident in French history and shows us some of the famous events connected with the overthrow of the power of Louis XVI, and Marie Antoinette. In the first scene we see the royal family, which consists of King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and their two daughters, and their son. Louis XVII. The latter is heir presumptive to the French throne. They are apparently very happy in their domestic surroundings, but the nation is precipitating itself into the horrors of revolution and the next view shows us the mob surrounding the palace and beating its way into the royal family's private quarters. The latter flee for their lives from one part of the palace to another in a vain attempt to evade the ruffians. Finally the mob takes possession of the palace and subjects the royal family to the most humiliating insults, keeping them prisoners in a room where the guards watch over them until the time comes for the King to be torn from his loved ones and condemned to death. The little heir to the throne is then torn from his heartbroken mother and turned over to the care of the cobbler Simon, who takes him to his hut and abuses the little fellow most shamefully, subjecting him to all sorts of trying insults. Finally the little fellow is thrown into a dungeon, where in a dream he sees his noble father going to be executed. When the child is nearly dead from exposure and starvation he is taken out of his prison and carried to the home of a sympathizer, where, in the presence of a few kind ones, he passes away.
- The King has the archbishop murdered, then repents.