Most Viewed From American Mutoscope & Biograph

A woman sneaks up behind a seated couple, stabs the woman in the back, and makes an escape.

Two sets of images are superimposed. From the side, we see a two-masted ship. Across the deck walks a skeleton. It sits down, its legs akimbo. The...

Panoramic View, Aisle B, Westinghouse Works

Mack Sennett appears as a soldier in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

A short film in which the members of the Motion Pictures Patents Company (which had been founded only a year earlier) congratulate Thomas Edison...

Hangman brings criminal to gallows, places hood on head, priest prays.

A combination of the picture entitled "The Ballet of the Ghosts," and a surf scene; the resulting effect being that the ghostly figures rise up out...

A quarrelling couple are forced to quarantine together after the household maid becomes ill of an infectious disease.

A deranged man who believes he is Napoleon escapes the asylum and leads his keepers on a wild chase.

The scene opens with a salesman displaying corsets to the buyer of a country store. He calls in a female model and tries a corset on her. While the...

"A fascinating skirt dance by the well-known roof garden favorite."

America's Cup Races.

In the next scene all that is left of the cabin is a smoldering ruin. A company of trappers come rapidly out of the forest and discover the bodies of...

View of funeral procession and military parade at funeral for Hiram Cronk, who at the time of his death was the oldest surviving veteran of the War...

A womens' basketball game from 1904, documented.

Taken during the land parade in honor of Admiral Dewey, just before the turn into 72nd street...

Sandow and Peerless Annabelle were the first performers filmed by the new American Mutoscope Co. Annabelle reprised her Butterfly Dance and several...

Footage of aviation tests from 1905.

A corset maker -- for those of you who don't know what that it, it was a tight of highly reinforced girdle which gave the wearer an 'hourglass'...

In Colonial America a doctor refuses to "waste time on an Indian" whose daughter is ill. The doctor’s wife secretly travels to the Indian...