At the racetrack.
Væddeløbene ved Eremitagen
1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.
A Cloudy Sea and a Setting Sun
Danish filmmaker Peter Elfelt took his camera to the bottom of the slopes at the skiing competition in Norway. At the bottom of the slope the...
Holmenkollen Ski Jump
The film was taken the 27th of May, 1906 during the Gran Corrida organized by the Press Association of Nîmes. Although lost, it should not be...
Course de taureaux
A young man is hired as a guard for an insane asylum. Immediately the inmates start harassing him and he flees. The inmates give chase and they...
Dr. Dippy's Sanitarium
Depicts the exit of the President of the Republic Tomás Estrada Palma from the Presidential Palace, after giving the government to the...
Departure from Palacio de Don Tomás Estrada Palma
This one-reel documentary is pretty much what it says in the title. Cavalrymen ride their horses, first over low hedges, then over increasingly rough...
La scuola di cavalleria in Pinerolo
TR became the first President in office to visit a foreign country while on an inspection tour of the Panama Canal. On November 15, 1906, in Panama...
TR's arrival in Panama, November 1906. [No. 2]
In a most picturesque setting, the priests of ancient Gaul sacrifice to the gods the victims designated in honor of the mistletoe cutting.
The Druids
Indian Freedom Fighter Bal Gangadhar Tilak bathes in the river Ganges. One of the first moving images captured in India. The beginning of Indian...
Tilak Bathing at the Ganges
The head of the family, in search of money, dons the clothes left by the village priest. He commits a terrible deed, and later, the priest learns of...
A Priest's Conscience
Four prisoners, in convicts' stripes, march backwards down stairs and, under the watchful eyes of guards, hop backwards into their cells. Later, one...
The Impossible Convicts
The Life of an American Cowboy is a Western short film.
The Life of an American Cowboy
A trip through Vienna on a tram.
A Trip Through Vienna
On a winter evening, a poor peasant woman waited for her husband, who had gone to gather firewood in the forest. He finally arrived. The man and...
The Fairy of Spring
Two boys and their dog set out to play a series of practical jokes on their neighbors. After they have caused several disruptions, the police are...
The Terrible Kids
The short clip shows a spiritualist séance featuring a medium and two ‘spirits’, shot in Peter Elfelt’s studio. Dr Faustinus...
The Spiritist Faustinus
A view of King Street in Hawaii.
Panoramic View, King St. Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands
Lost film version of a novel (or scenes from a novel) written by Paul Siraudin.
Tit for Tat
This is an excellent and spirited picture of fine quality depicting the international curling contests in Switzerland, showing the Scotch champion...
Winter Sports: Curling Contests in the Alps
