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The boys dance to Grandpa's banjo playing, then indicate that he can't equal their skill. Grandpa gets up and performs an intricate step while still...
The Boys Think They Have One on Foxy Grandpa, But He Fools Them
A fire has swept through Durland's Riding Academy in Manhattan. The fire has mostly died down, but firefighters are still at the scene, hosing down...
Burning of Durland's Riding Academy
Three months after King George of Saxony ascended the throne he visited the city of Chemnitz.
King George of Saxony in Chemnitz on 10.9.1902
Jesus enters the temple while the merchants are selling their wares. Jesus overturns the tables of the money lenders by showing them their error.
Jésus chassant les vendeurs du temple
1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith
Reindeer Camp in Lapland
Lost comedy film from Georges Méliès.
Wine Cellar Burglars
A prestidigitator orders his assistant to bring a cabinet, which is displayed piece by piece to the audience. Two gentlemen are then introduced; they...
Cabinet Trick of the Davenport Brothers
A lovely young model in a white leotard poses for a photographer in his studio.
The Draped Model
“This is an absolutely new and extraordinary subject. A juggler takes in succession about a dozen eggs out of his servant's mouth. He breaks...
The Microscopic Dancer
A reenactment of a dirigible explosion in Paris.
The Catastrophe of the Balloon "Le Pax"
The "Foxy Grandpa" is a series of eight short staged films illustrating scenes and incidents from William A. Brady's musical production ‘Foxy...
The Creators of Foxy Grandpa
Fort-de-France : femmes portant des corbeilles
This short captures the thrill of winter sport in Canada, showing skiers racing downhill at high speed before leaping over a snow-built hurdle. Most...
Skiing Scene in Quebec
A pioneering mountaineering film made by Frank Ormiston-Smith for the Warwick Trading Company in 1902. Ormiston-Smith himself led and filmed an...
The Ascent of Mont Blanc
The Washington Star of April 1st, 1900, gave the following account of the ceremony: "Over 40,000 women and children passed through the White House...
Babies Rolling Eggs
Old woman sews patch on grandson’s trousers while friends jeer.
His Only Pair
Alexandra (1844-1925), daughter of Christian IX, married in 1863 to Prince Edward (1841-1910), who after Queen Victoria's death in 1901 became King...
Queen Alexandra's Arrival to Toldboden
A joyful Pas de Deux, performed by Clara Rasmussen and Margrethe Andersen. Clara Rasmussen/Wieth/Pontoppidan (1883-1975) was to become one of the...
Pas de Deux
Tobogganing and Snowballing at Grindelwald
Panorama of the Range of the Alps
Likely the world's oldest color film, shot in 1902. Like other works by Edward R. Turner, there is no indication that it was ever relesead to the...
Alfred Raymond, Agnes May, & Wilfred Sydney
On a set of a garden at the side of a house, the boys are conspiring to play a trick on Foxy Grandpa. As the old gentleman enters the scene, the two...
The Boys, Still Determined, Try It Again on Foxy Grandpa, with the Same Result