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- President Porfirio Díaz, escorted by horsemen, rides on horseback in a park; cyclists get off their bikes to greet him.
- A short black and white film of a boat full of passengers on a river in Mexico.
- Two duelists, armed with pistols, fire: one of them is hit and collapses.
- A short black and white film which documents a crowd involved in transporting the Independence Bell.
- In three successive waves, civil guard riders quickly cross the plain.
- Men and women dance, arms raised and snapping their fingers in the middle of a crowd of spectators.
- President Porfirio Diaz rides his best horse with his friends in Chapultepec. This is considered to be the first movie filmed in Mexico.
- To the rhythm of the drum, young girls perform a gymnastic exercise in the courtyard of a high school, and parade holding a stick at arm's length.
- "A motley crowd of Mexicans and Indians coming and going in the market place, carrying sugar cane, pottery and sweet potatoes."
- A fine picture, taken from a moving boat passing up this great canal for a distance of about one mile, from the City of Mexico to the suburban village of Santa Anita. Hundreds of flat bottomed boats, used by the Mexicans to transport the produce from their farms to the market, pass the boat on which our camera is stationed. A beautiful and comprehensive view of one of the greatest produce canals in the world. The Mexican peasants, men, women and children, are seen pushing their flat bottomed boats along with long poles. The boats are loaded down with garden produce. The picture is interesting from start to finish. Many beautiful arched bridges are passed under during the trip, enhancing the scene greatly. Sold complete or in separate lengths.
- This must not be confused with incomplete or less imperfect bull fight pictures which have been sold in short lengths from time to time. Remember, that we here show in 1,000 feet, a complete bull fight from start to finish. By the aid of a specially designed panoramic camera, and by special arrangement with Sr. Antonio Fuentes and Sr. Luis Mazzantini, we are able to keep the bull within the field of our lens during the entire fight. The bull and the fighters are also very close to our camera and at all times are full life size. This is a complete performance in itself and can be billed as a special feature or a headline, the complete series, 1,000 feet in all, lasting 25 to 30 minutes. This fight, by the greatest bull fighters in the world (the one and only Antonio Fuentes and his companion, Luis Mazzantini), was fought in the City of Mexico before President Diaz and his entire cabinet, on February 2nd, 1902. Its features are many. Only pure blooded Spanish bulls are used. First comes the Grand Herald with his elegant costume, black velvet trappings, and beautiful plumes, his elegant charger prancing up to the Judges' stand. After bowing to the Judges and the audience, he rides out of the ring, and again returns, followed by the entire cuadrilla of bull fighters, including Matadors (Killers), Banderilleros and Picadores (Stickers) and several mule teams (six to each team). At a signal given from the Judges' stand by a bugler, a wild bull rushes frantically into the ring, tail up and eyes darting fire. The Capadores flourish their capes in the bull's face, as he charges at them. The Picadores ride in front of the animal, holding their picks ready to stick him when he charges the horses. In this fight, horses and riders are upset and thrown in every direction. The Picadores pick the bull many times, although five horses are killed before the bull is finally dispatched. The bull, now more furious than ever, charges at the Banderillos, who have been waiting to thrust the wounded animal. They succeed in placing four pairs of Banderillos in the bull's back and shoulders. At last the bugler gives the signal to kill, and the Matador walks proudly up to the bull, shaking his red cloth in his face. The bull rushes madly at the cloth, but the Matador nimbly steps to one side. The Matador sees his opportunity, and thrusts his sword up to the hilt in the bull's neck. Mortally wounded, he staggers around blindly, tearing around the ring, and trying to pierce his enemies with his horns. He repeatedly charges the Matador, Antonio Fuentes, rushing at him with his head lowered. Here one realizes how helpless is this magnificent animal pitted against science and agility. The Matador is obliged to place another sword before the powerful animal succumbs. This time the sword enters between the shoulder blades as the bull is making one of his fiercest charges, and he drops dead. A team of mules now drags the dead bull from the ring. This picture is most exciting, and gives one a perfect idea of the sport which is indulged in by the Spanish and Mexican people. We also sell the separate subjects of the bull fight.
- A young sheep herder, whom his associates had dubbed "The Cringer," because of his physical fear, was one day attending to a sick kid out of his flock, when some cowboys, who are a sheep herder's natural enemy, come upon him. They make sport of him and rough him up a bit, leaving him cringing on the ground. They then ride into town and have a blow-out. Muck Peters, the owner of the sheep, a renowned character for stinginess and brutality, happens to see the cringer nursing the goat and in his anger strikes the cringer to the ground. The cringer drags himself away from him back to his sheep, where he tells Joe, a stoic herder, of his mishaps and is again knocked to the ground by his fellow herder. His thoughts are not so much of himself as for the poor little kid. When he thinks of the suffering of the little goat his whole nature transforms itself. He determines to show them that he fears nothing. He steals one of his employer's horses, rides into a mountain city, sets fire to a barn, so that the citizens may be drawn thereto by the conflagration, enters a hank and holds it up, the cashier being alone as the remainder of the clerks have gone to the fire. He falls an easy prey to the cringer, but presses a button to the Protective Service Office, thereby giving the alarm that the bank is in danger. The cringer gets away with a sack of money, but through a daughter of the captain of the Protective Service, who runs to the fire and warns the cowpunchers that the bank has been robbed, the cringer is soon compelled to take to cover in an old abandoned log hut, where he makes his last stand, and he compels the posse to shoot him, dying with the words on his lips, "I wasn't afraid."
- A man (Enhart) is urged by his wife to visit the tomb of his mother-in-law in the anniversary of her death. After buying some flowers, Enhart goes to the cemetery, gets drunk and falls asleep. Policemen come and take him to the jail. After that, he's rescued by his partner, Alegria, and goes to the theatre where he acts a comical show.
- Dick McKnight, a deputy sheriff of Santa Cruz County, Ariz., receives a telephone message from Sheriff Wheeler, of the adjoining county, to the effect that Pedro Aquilla and his band of cattle rustlers and outlaws are in San Luis Canyon. His brother, Bill McKnight, the sheriff, being away, the young deputy determines to go out alone and corral some of the gang. He leaves a note to that effect for his brother and starts upon his mission. After getting into the mountains he runs across a note fastened to a tree, which reads: "Go Back or You Die With the Sun." Dick is not an impressionable young man, but the words make him think and he gives it more weight than is usually given to anonymous communications. He continues on his journey, but cannot get the note out of his mind. As he goes forward the words burn into his brain and every little noise in the mountains startles him until fear grabs him in its deadly grasp and drives him, a frightened thing, into an old abandoned adobe hut, where his nerve is worn to a raw edge by the fear which the words signified to him. He places his pistol to his head, the revolver explodes and we leave him in darkness. His brother Bill, the sheriff of Santa Cruz County, coming home after a hard ride finds the note that the youngster has left for him and knowing the difficult task that Dick has taken upon himself, he determines to follow his brother. He trails him to the cabin and entering same finds all that is left of a once brave, light-hearted boy. He takes the cursed note from his brother's clenched hand and receives the same fatal suggestion of fear that his brother had felt and when his innocent horse inadvertently rubs his head, against the door of the adobe, he is more startled than he has ever been before. He clutches his revolver, running from what seems to him to be a haunted place. He mounts his horse and rides from that which he had loved most, his brother. Continuing madly along divers trails not knowing just what to do, the insidious note causing that destroying thought, fear ever augmenting and increasing until from a brave man. Known throughout the territory for his loyalty and bravery, he becomes a cringing, incapable child trying to hide from that thing which is seizing him in its grasp. He attempts to hide in an old abandoned monastery, going back further into the depths of the broken walls until he eventually sinks into a deep crevice, almost an imbecile, firing his revolver at unseen things. The last cartridge of his revolver loosens the old clay and they tumble down upon him, burying him in the tomb. The sun breaks through as we see his hand twitching as he smothers, paying the penalty of the suggestion offered by the piece of paper clenched in his hand even unto the end in the agony of fear. -- Moving Picture World synopsis
- Beautiful Mexico now topic of every newspaper, is indeed an appropriate subject at this time for an educational and scenic feature. In the few moments that this magnificent picture is exhibited on the screen the audience will see the Peons, natives of Mexico, scrambling for a few centavos (pennies), their adobe dwellings, market-places, the flower market (Plaza Mayor), the beautiful La Viga Canal, the historical LaNoche Triste (the mournful night tree, under which Cortez wept over his defeat at the hands of the Aztecs. Further, we are taken by automobile through the different streets, we are then shown the bell tower cathedral, where we get a beautiful bird's-eye view of the city. Next we are shown the national palace and Plaza Mayor. Last, but not least, we are driven up Paseo Avenue to the monument of Guatemozin, the last Aztec emperor.
- John Field, head bookkeeper of the First National Bank, and in charge of the safe deposit vaults, was rather a rapid young man. His associates of a like caliber, have given him evil suggestions, and he, acting upon them, steals, not only from the bank funds, but from the deposit boxes, of which be secures duplicate keys. He attempts to cover up his irregularities, but it is found out by an old German customer who has a safe deposit box. He informs the president of the bank, who immediately sets the wheels of the law in motion to find out the defaulter. He secures Mary Ryan, an expert detective, who "ropes" the impressionable young man, and he, fascinated by her, informs her that he is leaving, that evening, and asks her to come with him. She agrees. They part to prepare for the journey. She immediately informs the bank president, who secures two plain clothes men. Field, coming to the station, sees them talking, takes alarm and seeing another engine standing on a siding, determines to make his getaway. In his youth his father was an engineer, and he learned how to run an engine. The female detective and the two plain clothes men, with the assistance of the bank president, give chase after discovering his departure and capture him. The feminine in the girl detective asserts itself after a strenuous jump from the engine and she realizes that she is going to faint, but first locks one handcuff on the captive and one on herself, and immediately afterwards falls unconscious. Field, the culprit, who has been knocked unconscious, regains his senses and realizes the situation. He carries the girl with him to what he deems a place of safety, but is overtaken by the plain clothes men and the banker, where womanlike, she comes to long enough to inform the bank president that she guesses she fainted, but she got him. The bank president, whose admiration had previously been strongly augmented, now shows his love for the girl and clasps her in his arms.
- Ferro Cararo, a Mexican pagan in the hills of Mexico, has abducted two children in their youth and taught the older one to become a highwayman. Carlos, the older boy, a gentleman by birth, rebels against this life and at last determines to desert the old brigand. He divides his spoils with his teacher and departs for the States, taking his younger brother with him. Ten years later we find him well established in the community, having gained recognition by honesty and straightforwardness. He meets a beautiful girl through an accident to her brother. They become sweethearts. Ferro, the Mexican, finding it too hot for him in his native home, also departs for the States. An incident brings the teacher and the slave children together. Ferro recognizes the scar which he himself had made upon the wrist of Carlos. Ferro, fearing he would be recognized, determines to give Carlos up to the authorities, and inveigles the sheriff into running Carlos down and shooting him as a murderer and desperado. His sweetheart feeling something is wrong, arrives in time to take charge of the little brother as she sees her sweetheart dying.
- An outlaw in holding up a stage meets "the girl;" he leaves his trace of felony, deserts his fellow bandits and becomes a hermit and an honest man. Ten years later he returns to the city and there, through an accident, meets "the girl" of his dreams. An unknown power draws them together in spite of the fact that she is married. A jealous and impotent traitor tries to deliver him to the hands of justice, but his attempts are frustrated by Gentleman Jack and he leaves and returns to the humble life of a wood chopper, only later to see his sweetheart riding along with her husband. He determines to play a joke on them. He holds up the girl and her husband, but she recognizes him and introduces him to her husband. It breaks Jack's heart and he determines to again become a knight of the road, but as he is buckling on his guns, the vision of Mary, his sweetheart, appears to him and he removes his belt, drops his irons on the ground and takes up his axe.
- Pedro Mendez is a big, simple-minded Mexican farmer. He is strong, but slow and so dull mentally as to be a mere clod. With him on his farm are his wife and a crippled mother, all of the same stolid type. When Pedro is in town getting his supplies he learns of an intended revolution and is asked to join the recruits. He cannot understand what it is all about; they try to explain, but his simple mind cannot grasp the meaning. He sees the drilling, but goes on his way back to the farm saying nothing to his wife or mother. Later a troop of revolutionists coming by confiscate his horses. He would remonstrate, but the gold lace of the man in command and his authoritative manner cow the clod and he permits the theft. Later a band of guerrillas raid the farm and carry off his chickens and cattle. A retreating band of rebels use his house as a barricade. He sees his home begin to crumble. Their members become fewer and they try to make him fight, but he will not, so he and his mother are sent to the attic out of the way, and his wife commanded to bind the wounds of the injured. She is killed by a bullet. The house catches fire and the rebels exit to meet the other soldiers. Pedro staggers out with his crippled mother in his arms. Outside he lays her under a tree and goes back for his wife. When he brings his dead wife out he finds that his mother has died. He looks at the two figures, at his burning home and then at the battle that is swinging about him. His dormant passion and strength are at length aroused. He gives vent to the terrible cry, and wrenches a musket from a dead soldier near him. He turns upon the battling soldiers. There is no desire for heroic action, but simply a mad animal desire to kill and appease his passion. He rushes into the melee and lays about him with the clubbed musket. As the battle passes around him they turn and shoot him with a laugh. He staggers against a support and looks about him dully. Everything has gone, wife, mother, home and all. He understands less now what it is all about than before, and slowly sinks to his knees, falls forward and rolls over on his face.
- Senor Don Alma Bendadoso, who has been away from his native home, has sent word to his adherents that he is returning to his castle for the purpose of teaching the true word of God. One of the local newspapers printed a warning to the natives, who are all superstitious to a terrible degree. In his boyhood, the don, while out hunting, met with an enraged mountain lion, which he held with his eye and escaped unharmed, the people then giving him the title of "He of the Evil Eye," and fearing him from that day forward, therefore the unjust title held fast to this quiet man of love. Upon his arrival the people were warned by one Don Immonco Superstisioso and his daughter's sweetheart, Ocloso Ignoranto. The girl, Sobre Superstisioso, wishing to know more about the man with the evil eye, fled the house to the thick of the fray and there met the cursed one, who fascinated her, much to the chagrin and envy of the one who has been selected for her. Later the girl cultivated the acquaintance of Alma, and finds him to be a master, and superior in every way to those with whom she had come in contact, and respect and admiration slowly ripened into love, which was returned by he of the evil eye. Her father demanded that she marry Ocloso Ignoranto, and she finally declared herself by saying that one month hence she will marry him who is most worthy. Senor Don Alma Bendadoso rises clear from the darkness of ignorance to that lightness of reason and understanding, enveloping the girl with the halo from his own soul.