Most Viewed From American Mutoscope & Biograph

A man peeping through a keyhole at an attractive young woman gets his comeuppance. This film, presumed lost, is often mistaken for Ferdinand Zecca's...

The young husband's irrational jealousy makes him suspicious of every attention bestowed upon his wife. Even the minister, who performed their...

Numerous women stand at several rows of tables where they appear to be wrapping tape around some devices, presumably coils. Male supervisors walk...

A man and three women leave an abandoned mining town and travel across the desert. After the man's death, his wife plans revenge against her...

A mother works as a dancer to support her ill daughter. One night while performing, the mother has a vision of her child dying. She rushes home, but...

The representative of an American Syndicate comes to Mexico to look over some land. While there, he pays considerable attention to the little Mexican...

Looking for evidence that her husband may have been unfaithful, a woman is in a hotel, accompanied by a witness, and they are peeking through the...

The Fate of the Artist's Model (1903) shows a young woman and her baby who are abandoned by her artist lover.

Filmmaker WKL Dickson, one-time right hand man to Thomas Edison, the 'Wizard of Menlo Park', here captures an even greater eminence, Pope Leo XIII....

A Quaker father is bringing up his daughter Ann in a stern, religious manner, often disturbed by her frivolity. A motorist, a concert singer from the...

From a single camera position, two young women are photographed lighting a cigarette. After several puffs, one of the young ladies becomes faint, and...

A loving father favors a prosperous young man as his daughter’s suitor but disowns her when she chooses a working-class man. Years later, the...

What appear to be molds pass some men by on conveyor belts. The men take them off the belt and dump the contents onto the ground. Other men pick up...

Showing two typical concert hall knock-about teams in a very poor performance. It ends up in their being egged by the audience.

Automobile Race for the Vanderbilt Cup

A procession of American and European automobiles--including such makes as Daimlers, Mercedes, Stanley Steamers and Pierces-- drive up and down the...

The first movie audiences took particular delight in scenes of rushing, churning water. These scenes of Niagara Falls were taken in September 1896,...

The second film in the series shows the same girl in a brisk calisthenic exercise.

The subject is the movement of cut timber from the forest to the mill. The few scenes that make up the film are loggers performing the various...

A rural schoolmaster, beloved by his pupils, is dismissed from his teaching post when the county’s visiting school inspector is mildly...