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- This shows the final washing of the gold on one of the richest claims in the Klondike. The coarse gold and nuggets are placed in the pan ready for weighing. During the four years the owner, Professor Lippy, has received over $5,000,000 from this claim.
- The Coney Island Jockey Club's Suburban Handicap race was won by the three-year-old bay colt Africander, with the best and most seasoned horses in training at his heels. He took the lead in the stretch, and for the final quarter of a mile flew down the track at a pace that astonished the crowd. Africander won from Herbert by a head. Hunter Raine was third. None who witnessed the race will soon forget the finish. After the race, the camera revolved to the left, bringing into view the rider of Africander, seated in floral chain, and the cheering multitudes in the grand-stand.
- "This picture shows the Columbia crossing the line, leading the Shamrock by about 1/2 mile. The Shamrock is plainly seen in the distance and she later comes up and crosses the line in the same picture."
- In this race the yachts cross the finishing line, as every one knows, under a nineteen-knot breeze. Our cameras are started while they are at a distance of about one-half mile and keep running until they cross the line. Both boats cross within twenty-feet of our camera and the effect is most stirring and interesting.
- Here we present a most remarkable view of the plucky challenger Shamrock and the defender Columbia. The yachts both pass and re-pass our camera in jockeying for the start, and we present a very close view and a most perfect photograph. The yachts finally make the start upon the firing of a gun and cross the line so close to our camera that we could have "tossed a biscuit" on the decks of either boat.
- This picture is the most dramatic of any of the series. It shows the complete maneuvers before starting and while crossing the line. The Columbia is seen putting about and executing the wonderful movement of Captain Barr to get into the Shamrock's wind. The Shamrock crosses the line a few seconds ahead of the Columbia, the Columbia having the leeward position. The boats were so close and so equally placed as to suggest one great composite single sticker, and Captain Barr cleverly comes about under the Shamrock's stern and gets across the line just a few seconds before the handicap gun, one minute and thirty-four seconds after the challenger. On going about the Columbia tacks a distance of about 300 yards from our camera and sails straight at us under a fifteen-knot breeze. The full height of the great mast and sails is over her deck. When she passes our camera she is not more than twenty-five feet away and the movements of the sailors as they scamper over the decks, pulling on the ropes and adjusting the great sails, make a most dramatic finish to the picture.
- This is the banner picture of them all and it almost defies description. The yachts crossing the line in this race follow tactics heretofore unknown in the cup races. As both boats went over the line the balloon topsails were shaken out and the spinnaker sails were set. The yachts were close to our camera when these sails were given to the winds, and the effect is most beautiful and adds one hundred per cent to the picture. Immediately the spinnakers and the balloon topsails catch the wind the yachts are seen to leap forward in the water as though propelled by steam. Our panoramic camera is here set in motion and the yachts are followed until they have almost passed out of sight.
- Here the yachts are both sailing under a twenty-knot breeze, and the effect is most beautiful as they turn the stake, the Shamrock leading by one-eight of a mile. The sailors working at the ropes make a most beautiful effect as the yachts pull about for home and begin the great struggle which ended in the awarding of the cup to Columbia.
- A fine view of the great ocean liner leaving New York Harbor under full speed, accompanied by a fleet of tugs and excursion craft. We regret that at the late hour of the day on which this picture was taken, and the murky condition of the atmosphere, prevented our getting a perfect picture photographically, but the historical significance of the subject prompts us to list the picture.
- In this most wonderful picture we show the Kronprinz Wilhelm steaming into the New York harbor, surrounded by United States Naval ships and tugs, newspaper tugs, and various pleasure craft, all of which are saluting and blowing their whistles. Our panoramic device is then set in motion, and the Royal yacht Hohenzollern is brought into view as a climax to the film.
- In this picture a fine idea of the jockeying and start is given, showing Shamrock III. very close, the sailors running back and forth as she passes the camera. The Reliance crossed the line a few seconds after the Shamrock in this race, and a close view of her is also shown.
- Showing the Reliance rounding the outer stake, four minutes ahead of Shamrock III. Both boats are kept in picture part of the time, and after following the Reliance up for a quarter of a mile the camera is again brought to bear on the stake in time to see Shamrock III come around and follow after the Reliance.
- A gardener is sprinkling a lawn. "Weary Willie" appears upon the scene. He seizes the hose and doubles it up so that the flow of water is checked. The gardener thinking there is something wrong examines the nozzle of the hose while "Weary Willie" releases the kink in the hose and the water gushes into the gardener's face, knocking him violently to the ground. The gardener starts after "Weary Willie," playing the hose on him as he runs. The tramp is finally captured by a policeman and marched off to the station, dripping wet. Very humorous.
- "Taken from the front platform of a special train run backward over this celebrated S curve. Not only are the passing trains and crowded platforms of great interest, but the view of uptown New York is an excellent one, showing acre upon acre of roofs, towers, steeples and towering apartment houses. As the 'special' slows up at 92nd street, a Harlem express dashes by, the engineer leaning out of his cab, and waving a good-bye."
- "A stirring scene; full of martial energy. No ordinary dress parade this, but a picture of soldiers men with a high purpose. They march up the platform in fours, and left wheel just in front of the camera, passing out of sight in a cloud of dust. The customary small boy is in evidence in great numbers. While the rear guard passes, the train pulls out of the station. Literally 'out of sight.'"
- "Hurrah here they come! Hot, dusty, grim and determined! Real soldiers, every inch of them! No gold lace and chalked belts and shoulder straps, but fully equipped in full marching order; blankets, guns, knapsacks and canteens. Train in background. Crowds of curious bystanders; comical looking 'dude' with a sun-umbrella strolls languidly in the foreground, and you almost hear that 'yaller dog' bark. Small boys in abundance. The column marches in fours and passes through the front of the picture. More small boys all colors. The picture is excellent in outline and full of vigorous life.
- "Imagine forty or fifty soldier boys each with a pail of water on the ground before him, sousing and spattering and scrubbing away for dear life. Soap and towels, too. Every man jack of them looks as if he were enjoying the wash immensely, and also the novelty of having his picture taken. The big fellow in the center of the picture is laughing heartily. All the figures are clearly outlined, and the whole group is true to life."
- "Taken at Tampa, Fla. Up the road from the camp comes a double file of cavalrymen, a hundred or more, each man leading another horse beside his own. The leader rides a magnificent dapple gray. They approach at a fast walk, with an occasional frisky animal prancing and pirouetting. As they pass by, the spirited action reminds one forcibly of Rosa Bonheur's celebrated 100,000 dollar painting, 'The Horse Fair.' The figures of both men and horses stand out in relief."
- Shows a typical Bowery barbershop and the proprietor waiting for the next "victim." Two customers enter and take seats and the barber proceeds to cover them with the same apron. The operator next administers gas to each customer. He then applies a very liberal quantity of lather, with a whitewash brush, and proceeds to shave with an immense razor, which he frequently strokes on the soles of the victim's shoes. With a few vigorous strokes he removes the customer's beard and incidentally some of his hair, and after a few liberal squirts of water from an immense syringe, removes the apron and touches a spring which causes the chairs to be precipitously vacated, exhibiting the usual sign, "Next."
- Some of the steepest hills in the world are in the city of San Francisco, Cal. These hills are traversed daily by electric and cable cars and the trip up and down them is most thrilling. In this picture we give the audience a trip on the front platform of a cable car running down Union street, the steepest hill in San Francisco. The trip is begun from the top of the hill and one can see the business portion of the town many hundreds of feet below and seeming to be miles away. The trip is very thrilling and the subject entirely interesting.
- The scene is before the open door of a Chinese pagoda. A Chinese conjurer appears as if coming from the bowels of the earth, and causes a beautiful Chinese maiden to take her place on the stone steps of the pagoda. The maiden is suddenly transformed into the huge head of a Chinese hobgoblin who emits great volumes of smoke from his mouth. An American traveller then appears upon the scene and seizing a huge sword splits open the head of the hobgoblin, and from its centre appear three small Chinamen who dance about in a fantastic manner. Then the allied soldiers of England, France, Russia, America and Germany appear and from the place previously occupied by the Chinese hobgoblin there appears a lily, in the centre of which grows the figure of a beautiful woman representing the Goddess of Liberty.
- A very interesting film, giving views of the Treasury Department, the Corcoran Art Gallery, the War and Navy Building, the White House and other prominent points in the Nation's Capital. These views were taken by using the new circular panoramic attachment which has lately been added to our cameras, and we are thus enabled to present views taken from different points all in one film without breaking the continuity of the view, as the buildings appear to pass slowly before the eyes of the spectator.
- A rural youth enters a country grocery store and places an order with Si Perkins, the proprietor. While Si is engaged filling the order, he places a bent pin on a stool, which is occupied a moment later by Uncle Josh, and his antics afford great amusement to Si and the youth. While Si and Josh are interested in a newspaper he helps himself liberally to dried apples. Josh calls Si's attention to this and they get even with the youth by giving him a big glass of cider. The youth unsuspectingly drinks the cider and becomes severely distressed and begins to swell up. Upon reaching tremendous proportions he disappears in an explosion, leaving the astonished countrymen gazing in open mouth wonder.
- Shows an old sport getting out of bed after a night at the club. His clothes are a mystery to him. He puts on his trousers and is about to reach for his shirt, when, to his surprise, he finds the shirt has changed places with his trousers. The shirt is quickly taken off and the trousers adjusted in place again. As he reaches for the shirt again, it disappears from where it was hanging, and he finds it is on his body. He then attempts to put on his vest but finds it has mysteriously exchanged places with his trousers. This happens various times with coat and vest, but finally he manages to get things right, and goes for his hat. As he is about to place the hat on his head it changes into a water-pail. This is quickly removed and thrown on the floor. After a little difficulty he gets fully dressed and attempts to leave the room, but finds that all of his outer clothes have left him and he is again in the same condition in which he started. He sits down in despair, and again, to his surprise, finds that he is fully dressed. He quickly leaves the room. Very funny.
- Here we depict a German soldier who has just received a box of Christmas delicacies from home. He opens the box and carefully removes the contents, several bottles of wine, pies, cakes, cookies of all descriptions; but the climax is reached when his favorite dish comes into view--a huge bologna sausage. The facial expressions here introduced are comical. Ignoring the wine, cakes and other delicacies, he settles himself back comfortably and partakes of his favorite sausage.
- A very fine picture of a comical Dutchman shaving himself, or, rather, trying to shave himself. The razor is dull and the beard is tough. After many cuts and a great exhibition of facial contortion, the beard and lather are finally removed. A most pleasing subject.
- Here is a picture that is extremely laughable. An old man is indulging in a dream, which dream is demonstrated in the picture. It shows him in a restaurant partaking of a sumptuous meal and a bottle of wine with a soubrette. There is a sudden awakening, however, and in an apparently disgusted mood, he finds himself in his own bed and his wife endeavoring to induce him to get up and build the fire.
- This picture shows a column of 1,500 men, one of the finest bodies of men in all Europe ever collected together in one regiment. Their striking uniforms and helmets, the steel-tipped lances they carry, the magnificent horses they ride, their elegant trappings, the majestic manner in which they ride, make this picture one of the most desirable and valuable of our military. The column is led by a military band on horseback.
- Enter landlord and tenant. Rooms rented. Furniture arrives. Tenant very busy. Must settle things and have dinner ready when wifey arrives. Household effects come in through windows and doors on the fly. As they come, they are caught by the tenant and rapidly placed where they belong. Pictures are placed on the wall, curtains are hung, dishes and other utensils put in place on the table and in the pantry, as if by magic. After things are settled and the dinner, which came in with the dishes, is all on the table, wifey appears, and complimenting "hubby" for his wonderful work, they sit down at the table to eat. A very mystifying subject, and sure to please the most critical.
- Shows the old familiar game, "Hoist the Sail," played on an unsuspecting Grandma. Grandma is seated in a big chair, with her six charming granddaughters gathered about her. They stand over Grandma counting up to six, when up goes Grandma into the air. Suddenly they let go their hold and down comes Grandma. Grandma retaliates by seizing one of her granddaughters and giving her a sound spanking. Very humorous.
- Grand entrance of bull fighters, including matadors, picadors and banderilleros. Picador is seen teasing a bull. Suddenly the enraged animal charges at the horse, and drives his long sharp horns into him. The picador dismounts, removes bridle and saddle, and shortly the horse staggers from loss of blood and drops dead. The matador is next seen. The bull charges at him, but he quickly steps aside and plunges his sword into the unfortunate animal between the shoulder blades. It reaches the heart and the bull drops over dead. He is then dragged from the ring by the flunkies. Very realistic.
- A man, objecting to being filmed, comes closer and closer to the camera lens until his mouth is all we see. Then he opens wide and swallows camera and cinematographer. He steps back, chews, and grins.
- A mystery picture of considerable novelty. A young couple arrive at a fashionable café, intent upon dining. The waiter is a wizard who plays all sorts of queer pranks with the table and chairs. The tricks are cleverly done, and the interest in the picture is well sustained.
- An express train crashes into a goods train and plunges down an embankment.
- Man enters restaurant and sits at table. Waiter takes his order, and departs to have the meal prepared. He returns with the soup and other eatables. After placing the second course of the meal on a table in an adjoining room, he proceeds to serve the soup. While the waiter is taking the customer's order for dessert, a huge dog enters the room where the second course was placed on the table, and upon seeing the meal, helps himself. The waiter upon returning to the room for the second course, is surprised to see part of it on the floor. The dog again appears, and the waiter, knowing that he is the culprit, commands him to "cough up," which he does. Here we see the dog giving back what he has eaten, piece by piece. When the waiter gets all the dog has eaten, he proceeds to pick up the remainder from the floor. The customer now has a job on his hands. When he attempts to cut the meat, he finds the knife is dull, or the meat is tough. The facial expressions on both waiter and customer are very funny, and the picture ends by the customer giving up in disgust.
- "Taken from the front platform of a 'special' furnished through the courtesy of the Pennsylvania R.R. Co. Shows a beautiful panoramic view of ever changing interest. First a straight track, fine roadbed and long vista of telegraph poles. Suddenly the road curves towards the mountainside. On one hand a study of foliage; on the other a deep ravine, with a fringe of far-off blue mountains in the background. A block signal tower comes into momentary sight, as the train whizzes along, past track walkers and a gang of section hands."
- An engaged couple, dressed in white, meet each other at a train station. When the train arrives, they get on board, and they enjoy the sights from the platform on the last car. The workers on the train are eager to help, and they make some special arrangements for the couple.
- This picture was taken on the promenade deck of one of the great Atlantic liners during a storm and shows a number of passengers clad in rainy day costume, walking the deck. The Captain also appears with a field glass and is making observations. The seas are running very high and make a picture of a very interesting nature. The picture is greatly enhanced by the heavy seas dashing against the sides of the ship, turning the water into foam, and by one of the passengers being taken suddenly ill and going hurriedly to the rail of the ship for obvious reasons.
- Shows a young black boy and a white boy in a lively set-to. They finally collapse in the centre of the ring after they have fought themselves to a stand-still. The referee proceeds to count them both out, and the seconds empty buckets of water on the fighters.
- "Shows one of New York's street gamins going through various acrobatic evolutions; he turns handsprings backward and forward, walks the crab, does cart wheels and other kindred feats. An exceptionally unique part of the performance is his standing on his head and twisting around like a top. It is safe to say he will be bald-headed at an early age."
- The Pan-American Exposition is encircled by an especially constructed canal, which was put in for the purpose of allowing the tourist to view the exterior of the buildings of the Pan-American Exposition with as little fatigue as possible. It is called the Grand Canal, is over a mile in length and extends around the central group of large buildings. The Mirror Lakes in the Southern portion of the canal form a picturesque feature and add ten fold interest to this picture. The electric launches which make the trip around the Exposition, and which are controlled by the Venice in America Co., represent the climax of comfort and elegance. The ride is a refreshing one with charming views at every turn. Romantic bridges span the waterway at convenient points, statuary placed everywhere contributes to the picturesque effect. The above named picture was secured by special permission of Mr. Burgee, of the Venice in America Co., and our picture was made from the bow of an especially chartered electric launch which made the trip for us at a high rate of speed. We give below as near as possible a detailed description of the different points of interest, as they are recorded by the camera, and just as they are viewed by the visitor himself in making the trip on one of these exquisite launches. The launch in which our camera was placed started from the landing place in the Streets of Venice, which is stituated on the west side of the Exposition grounds facing the Midway. The canal makes a quarer circle eastward, and our boat passes under the West Mall bridge, making an abrupt turn northward and continuing on its course past the Bazaar Building and to the African Village, when it swings suddenly to the eastward and makes a complete circle of the electric tower, turning its many corners and passing under a number of beautiful constructed bridges, over which multitudes of people are seen wending their way. In the trip from the Streets of Venice to the Electric Tower we pass many electric launches, and gondolas laden with tourists who are making merry as our camera passes them. Three of the gondolas contain the Venetian Band and many of the pretty girls of the Streets of Venice, all of which attend to make the picture highly interesting. Having encircled and passed the Electric Tower, our boat takes an eastward course until it reaches the Stadium, when it passes under another of the exquisite bridges and turns abruptly to the south. Continuing its southern course it passes under the East Mall bridge, and takes in the Manufacturers' and Liberal Arts Buildings, passes the east entrance of the U.S. Government Building and the U.S. Ordnance Exhibit, where the heavy artillery and large disappearing guns are observed mounted in their repsective places. Our launch then swings to the eastward and continues a short distance when it again takes a southerly course and passes the south entrance of the U.S. Government Building, approaches and passes the Forestry and the grounds of the Six Nations of the American Indians, where their camps, log huts, wigwams, etc., are observed. We then turn to the eastward passing under a series of bridges with sculptural decorations that are unexcelled, and merging into the east end of Mirror Lake. Now comes the most interesting portion of this wonderful film. We follow in an easterly direction through Mirror Lake, skirting the north bank and taking in the pergola, and bearing steadily toward the main entrance and Fore Court of the Exposition grounds. Here we pass directly under the Colonnades into the submarine water channel and through what is known as the Grotto. The effect of running from an open lake into a beautiful tunnel decorated with tropical foliage of all description, is most novel. After passing through this grotto, which consumes about one minute of time, the west end of Mirror Lake suddenly comes into view, and we pass out on to the open waters of the lake where we are presented with an entirely new and enchanting panorama of the west side of the Exposition. The launch continues on this course taking in the north bank of the West Mirror Lake with the west pergola in the background, and passing the Mines Building, the Esplanade Fountains, the Horticultural Exhibits, the Southwest Midway, under the beautiful bridge which forms the main approach to the West Midway from the Esplanade, and turning suddenly to the northward runs under a bridge of Venetian architecture, and finally merges into the Streets of Old Venice. This is the end of the trip around the Exposition and the climax of the picture. Great crowds are assembling in the Streets of Old Venice and one can imagine himself in reality floating through the Old European city of canals. In this entire picture we present a most diversified panorama. The constant turns of the canal and the many bridges which span it furnish the audience with something new to look at during almost every second of the trip.
- This will please every audience. Pictures of children are invariably popular; and it is safe to say that nowhere can be found a finer collection of youngsters than these. They are just arriving from a May party in a large toy fire patrol wagon drawn by a colored mule. The beautiful Coney Island Boulevard, crowded with carriages, appears in the background, and as the children alight or are lifted out of the wagon by the ladies, they run forward until the happy smiling little faces entirely fill the picture.
- "Grandpa sits nodding in his armchair in the kitchen, where a sout, jolly washerwoman is washing clothes. While the woman leaves the tub to talk to a book agent, a small boy enters, and ties grandpa's chair to a towel which is hanging over the tub. The washerwoman begins vigorously wringing the clothes. The towel is drawn into the wringer, and as grandpa is sitting with his feet on the stove and the chair tilted back, a collision is brought about by the towel pulling grandpa and the tub together. This is a crowning success as a comic picture."
- Recreation of military maneuvers in the Philippines in the Spanish-American War.
- Atop a wonderful central pedestal, a happy clown puts the finishing touches on a William Tell's incomplete model, assembling the mannequin limb by limb with the intention of shooting a target off of its head with a potent crossbow.
- Showing the feeding of the ducks, as well as their greed. They devour the food so rapidly that they become choked. They run to the water troughs and immediately back to the food, and keep running back and forth continually and promiscuously. This is a very lively and interesting picture, perfect photographically and instructive from beginning to finish.
- Here we depict an up-to-date surgical operation, showing a man's leg being amputated just above the knee joint. Three surgeons are engaged in the work and are attended by several female trained nurses. The camera is placed in such a position as to command a clear view of the entire operation. Each cut of the surgeon's knife is plainly shown in detail, even to the sawing of the bone, the cauterizing of the wound, and the sewing and the bandaging. This is a picture that will doubtless interest the medical fraternity or lecturers.
- Taken from the Brooklyn Bridge. Shows a tugboat with two large barges loaded with freight cars. As they approach, the camera is trained on them until they pass directly underneath, giving a very novel effect. After the boats pass out of view, the camera is raised until the new East River Bridge comes in view. Then the camera is moved to the west, showing a splendid view of the lower East Side.
- An ancient tower, in which is seated the magician, occupies the centre of the stage. On either side of the tower is a statue. The magician waves his hands and the tower and both statues disappear. He then removes his coat and seats himself upon a chair. On one side of the chair, two figures, each an exact counterpart of himself, appear. On the other side a third figure, also an exact counterpart of himself, appears. The figures then run up the wall, one of them balancing itself upon the head of the magician, and the others stand on their heads in the palms of his hands. The figures are then turned into flags, which the magician waves and throws aside as he makes his exit.
- In the days of our ancestors, the village blacksmith usually acted as dentist. Here we show a tooth being pulled in "Ye Olden Times." The "victim" is seated in a chair and the blacksmith approaches with a huge pair of tongs. He places the tongs in the victim's mouth and his foot upon his chest.