Summary

SCREEN SOUVENIRS #1

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Title: SCREEN SOUVENIRS #1
File Number: VTM-21BX 1 inch; NET-440 DigiBeta (at 01:04:01:00); Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Silent Drama
Year: 1900s
Description: 00:00:35:00 B W 1900s title Intertitle- "Joy-rider's Waterloo"...Scene shows what happened to a motorist speeding in 1905. 00:00:45:00 B W 1900s ms Early film footage as two police bikers, as seen from behind, follow an early 1900 car, as seen from the rear, on a suburban roadway. The car is open top and filled with riders. The policemen stop the car to give them a speeding ticket. 00:01:05:00 B W 1900s ms Intertitle-Pioneer parade of "horseless carriages". Early one and two cylinder cars which appear to be likeness of Ford Model A and R, 1903 to 1907. Note Equestrian Statue in BG which appears to be located in a park such as Central Park in New York City. 00:01:47:00 B W 1900s title Intertitle-Pioneer air show in 1910, Los Angeles, Calif. 00:01:58:00 B W 1900s ms Crowd filled stands watch biplane takeoff from field. 00:02:15:00 B W 1900s ms Members of the Aero Club of California. 00:02:28:00 B W 1900s ms biplane takeoff and headed for a crash into a tower. 00:02:36:00 B W 1900s ms GLENN CURTISS at the biplane controls prepares for flight. 00:02:42:00 B W 1900s ms Plane coming in for a field landing in record breaking distance flight 00:02:51:00 B W 1900s ms French pilot greeted by "Bronco" Billy Anderson (first movie cowboy) among the crowd. 00:03:15:00 B W 1900s ms Early film footage of couples at a social dance. ms The Waltz. Gown and Tuxedo mix of the dancers. 00:03:37:00 B W 1900s ms Sheepshead Bay 1910, Crowd filled Grandstand overlooking Speedway as BARNEY OLDFIELD prepares his race car. 00:03:55:00 B W 1900s cu CU face of the famous car racer with his goggles pulled up over his forehead and a cigar stuck in his mouth. 00:04:03:00 B W 1900s ms Boxing Heavyweight Champion, JACK JOHNSON, enters and sits in his car race car. 00:04:14:00 B W 1900s cu Profile Jack Johnson wearing car racing clothes and goggles. 00:04:20:00 B W 1900s ms Centennial parade at Wilkes-Barre, Pa.(1806-1906). 00:04:30:00 B W 1900s ms Celebrating crowd fill main street to watch the floats on parade. Mounted police, marching contingent of school boys, Flag waving "beauties" on float, Fisher Brothers float, featuring two boxers performing in a boxing match and placard signs read,"Jeffries" and "Fitzsimmons". 00:05:25:00 B W 1900s ms Float showing a modern bathroom with tub and sink fixtures. 00:05:32:00 B W 1900s ms Float showing young women in Greek Mythology costumes. 00:05:41:00 B W 1900s ms Float parading for the Lazarus Company as a smoking engine. 00:05:48:00 B W 1900s ms Intertitle and old film footage from 1906 of INT a Department Store, salesgirls behind the counter and on the floor servicing customers, a male floor-walker assisting customers...numerous cabinet draws for merchandise and display of black stockings. 00:06:38:00 B W 1900s ms Intertitle and Nickelodeon Announcement Signs such as: "One Moment Please". " Positively no stamping or whistling allowed". Somebodys baby is crying". "Krausemeyers 5c Beer". "Don't let your children act like wild Indians, please keep them Quiet". "Don't Spit". "The Next Part will follow at once".---all with appropriate illustrations and offscreen audience reaction. 00:08:00:00 B W 1900s ms Intertitle, followed by 1901 scene in front of the Russian Czar's Winter Palace- horse drawn carriages, group of people walking. 00:08:27:00 B W 1900s ms Fully loaded horse drawn bus carriage or streetcar riding on a wide street alongside streetcar tracks. 00:08:39:00 B W 1900s ms Street parade of priests bearing religious symbols. 00:08:58:00 B W 1900s ms Russian cavalry escort for the CZAR and Czarina. Cossack riders in the escort. The Royal carriage containing the Czar NICHOLAS II passes in front of CAM. 00:09:06:00 B W 1900s ms` Intertitle. 1907 Bridge-whist card game among woman in stylized taffeta plume hats of the period and the Gibson lace dress. 00:09:41:00 B W 1900s ms Intertitle. Film footage, 1902, in London. Heavy street traffic, crowded horse drawn buses and vehicular buses, e pedestrians. Clothing styles. Good view of passengers seated on top of an open bus riding the heavily trafficked London streets. 00:10:25:00 B W 1900s ms Woman's clothing styles...lace summer dress, straw boater hats, hats with plumes and feathers. 00:10:37:00 B W 1900s ms "The Kiss"...1895 penny arcade film footage featuring MAY IRWIN and JOHN RICE. First filmed embrace and kiss. 00:11:15:00 B W 1900s ms Intertitle. THEODORE ROOSEVELT in 1910 returning from African big-game hunting safari and being welcomed in New York City. Ocean liner in New York harbor. Teddy Roosevelt stands on deck, beside the captain, wearing top hat and frock coat as the ship slides into the pier. Policemen contingent escort Teddy Roosevelt from the dock. Teddy Roosevelt tips hat to the welcoming crowd 00:12:11:00 B W 1900s ms Parade scene on 23rd and Fifth. Rough Riders parading along with other soldiers in the Spanish American War. Teddy Roosevelt waves from carriage. 00:12:32:00 B W 1900s ms New York City MAYOR GAYNOR welcomes Teddy Roosevelt. Together on a bandstand draped with banners and flags. Police and Soldiers of the period. 00:12:49:00 B W 1900s ms Intertitle. Picture profile of JOHN PHILIP SOUSA, composer and conductor of Military Band Marching Music. Scene of marching band at the 1900 Paris Exposition, led by Sousa. Look at the Reviewing stand as Sousa conducts the playing band with his baton. Boy, nearby, waving a small American Flag. 00:13:35:00 B W 1900s ms Intertitle. A 1904 look at young girls wearing Tam O'Shanter's and pig tails engage in a "snowball fight". Then seen riding off thru the snow in a sleigh, which comes to a snow drift rise, and turns over, spilling the girls. Meet a sleigh containing a group of young men and women and a snowball contest commences. the group sliding down a snow bank. More snowball fight fun. 00:14:58:00 B W 1900s ms Intertitle. a 1906 Car and the passengers dressed for motoring. A brief look of the car starting. 00:15:30:00 B W 1900s ms Field level view of the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race. Early race cars speeding on the racing track past stands filled with onlookers. 00:15:34:00 B W 1900s ms Race car enveloped in smoke comes around the track turn. Good view of early race car, as No. 81 speeds and turns past the camera. Finish line at the first Vanderbilt race. 00:15:41:00 B W 1900s ms Intertitle. La Belle Fatima, made famous at the Chicago Worlds Fair in 1893. Slowly gyrating body in exotic motion. Shot: by late July 1896 00:16:13:00 B W 1900s ms Intertitle. Famous early footage of New York City Police Wagon driving and stopping on a wide city avenue or street which has a steep incline. Police escort captive into the horse-drawn station=wagon and ride off to the station house. 00:16:51:00 B W 1900s ms Scene in Chicago as police escort woman captive into Police Patrol Wagon. 00:17:06:00 B W 1900s ms Intertitle. Early Movie Screen Stars. CHARLES RAY (1891-1943) in scene from The Clod Hopper (with Marjorie Wilson). Screen persona- The small town bashful nice boy who makes good, after being pushed around. Tom Sawyer type with the battered straw hat and fishing pole. Peaked in WWI period and early '20s. 00:17:43:00 B W 1900s ms Intertitle. MADGE EVANS (1909-1981), Scene as a child actress in a silent film, Wanted, A Home. Playing the role of an orphan sitting on stoop steps of a brownstone building after receiving a gift bouquet of flowers from a boy admirer. Typically played "nice" genial romantic heroine roles. 00:18:17:00 B W 1900s ms DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JR.(1909- ). Home movie footage taken in 1922 just before making his first film, Stephen Steps Out. Here he is in the home movie as a debonair young boy trying out tennis rackets. Mother, Anna Beth Sully (Fairbanks) is included. 00:19:27:00 B W 1900s ms Early silent film domestic scene featuring LENORE ULRIC (1892-1970) and J. WARREN KERRIGAN (1889-1947). Ulrich's femme fatale, "the other woman"(and, Belasco B'way stage protege) , to Kerrigan's dashing hero,"The Gibson Man". 00:20:10:00 B W 1900s ms Genial, rotund, pantomimic comic "fat man"-JOHN BUNNY (1863-1915) in a scene of a man and his dog companion, in Bachelor Buttons. Between 1910 and 1915, this Dickens-like character type comedian made 200 one reelers for Vitagraph films. 00:20:39:00 B W 1900s ms Romantic love triangle scene between RUTH STONEHOUSE (1893-1941), and EUGENE O'BRIEN ( 1882-1966). 00:21:30:00 B W 1900s ms LOUISE FAZENDA (1895-1962) in an outdoor hunting episode. 00:22:15:00 B W 1900s ms Film scene in an business office, 1906. The boss cuddles and kisses the office stenographer...then caught by the arrival of the wife. 00:22:54:00 B W 1900s ms A young "TEXAS" GUINAN (188+-1934) rides a white horse and then is seen fighting a villain in a cabin. 00:23:35:00 B W 1900s ms A rare film footage scene from 1893. Woman washing a baby in a bath. (Called "the Morning Bath). 00:24:00:00 B W 1900s ms TAYLOR HOLMES (1872-1959), ROD LA ROCQUE (1896-1969), and VIRGINIA VALLI (1898-1968), in a scene from the silent film,"Efficiency Edgar's Courtship" 1917). Appear on a suburban street sidewalk and front lawn garden as passing cars ride by in BG. 00:24:49:00 B W 1900s ms "King of Comedy" team of MACK SENNETT (1880-1960) and MABEL NORMAND (1894-1930) having fun with bean shooter target practice in the silent film, "Tomboy Bessie" (1912). 00:25:25:00 B W 1900s ms A young easy going lovable WALLACE BEERY (1885-1949) meets and falls for BEVERLY BAYNE (1894-1982). BAYNE with FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN formed the first Hollywood romantic-partners team. 00:26:11:00 B W 1900s ms Film footage from "The Magic Melody", 1907. Fiddler wearing top hat, coat, and spats, saunters through the streets fiddling and leaves people happily waltzing together. In a restaurant, diners stop eating, waiters stop serving and begin to dance together. On a tree lined street, a policeman giving directions to a woman, begins to dance as the fiddler passes. An arguing couple at home, suddenly hear the fiddler's melody, and happily begin to waltz with each other. Finally everyone is dancing along the streets as the fiddler wends his way entirely engrossed in his merry and frantic playing. 00:27:19:00 B W 1900s ms Cartoonist creator draws a panel of Buster Brown. Cartoonist Sidney Smith draws a panel of his cartoon creation in 1913. Cartoonist Fontaine Fox (Toonerville Trolley) draws a comic character. Finally, cartoonist C. Briggs draws a cartoon panel for the camera. 00:28:27:00 B W 1900s ms "Princess Nicotine", 1910. PAUL PANZER (1872-1958) legendary player actor of villain roles-such as in the "Periles of Pauline" of the Pearl White serials. GLADYS HEWLETT also appears in this footage. Sequence about fairies who enter the bowl of a corn cob pipe, and stuff it with smoking tobacco. Panzer lights the pipe, much smoke, and the fairies are gleeful. 00:29:37:00 B W 1900s -s Film clip distortion. 00:29:58:00 B W 1900s ms HOBART BOSWORTH (1867-1943)m, the "Miracle Man", in a few short clips...dressed as a sailor doing a Spanish dance with a senorita then later kissing her as his wife. 00:30:40:00 B W 1900s ms Clip of NORMA TALMADGE (1893-1957) in a comedy role. After she is introduced to sissy-buffoon, HUGHIE MACK, she is angered by his piccolo practicing, but he responds by giving her a spanking on his lap. Also appearing in this clip are VAN DYKE BROOK and KATE PRICE. 00:31:32:00 B W 1900s ms the launching of New York City Staten Island Ferry Boat. Woman celebrity (shown from the back) cracks Champagne bottle on the bow of the ferry boat. New York politicians, New York City policeman in uniform. Good view of the ferry boat backing off the launch pad and settling on the water as crowd cheer from the pier. 00:32:19:00 B W 1900s ms actor RICHARD BENNETT and his young daughters, BARBARA, CONSTANCE, AND JOAN. 00:33:00:00 B W 1909 ms Baseball World Series highlights--1909. PAN the the Pittsburgh ballpark stands and the players on the bench before the opening game. Detroit manager, Hughie Jennings - pre game batting practice. Pittsburgh pitching ace, Babe Adams 00:33:38:00 B W 1900s ms TY COBB together with HONUS WAGNER. 00:33:47:00 B W 1900s ws Pittsburgh player-manager Fred Clarke seen rounding the bases after hitting a home run in the opener . 00:33:58:00 B W 1900s ms Film clip--"Lesson in Love", 1902. Early flirtation scene of the "dropped" handkerchief 00:34:26:00 B W 1900s ms park bench kissing couple. Man on bended knee. 00:34:55:00 B W 1900s ms Visitors entering Mammoth Cave, Kentucky in 1907. Two couples pose for pictures inside the cave. 00:35:34:00 B W 1900s ms Funeral of KING EDWARD VII, May 1910. coffin placed on gun carriage and pulled by members of the Bluejackets. In the procession (and shown by a pointed arrow) are George V, Duke of York, Edward Prince of Wales, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, King Alphonse of Spain, King Emmanuel of Portugal, King Alfred of Belgium, and the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria. 00:37:01:00 B W 1900s ms Turn of the century Volunteer Fireman parade, Freeport, Long Island. Firemen dressed in long dress coats and wearing caps. Fireman wearing dress uniforms and fire helmets. Fire chief rides an early car car. Firemen aboard a horse drawn fire engine. Finally, parade formation exercises by the fire volunteers in ranks. 00:38:04:00 B W 1900s ms VS famous and notorious Politicians...Washington DC CHAMP CLARK (1850-1921). Speaker of the House, 1911 to 1919, and Presidential candidate for the Democratic nomination in 1912. Speaking to an outdoor assemblage from a platform. 00:38:27:00 B W 1900s ms CHAUNCEY DEPEW (1834-1928). Senator. Lawyer for the Vanderbilt interests. President of New York City Central. Famous after dinner speaker. 00:38:42:00 B W 1900s ms JOE ROBINSON (1872-1937), Arkansas Senator. Co sponsor of the Robinson Patman act. JOE CANNON (1836=1926). House Speaker from 1903-1911. Autocratic and reactionary Republican leader. Member of Congress for 46 years..."Uncle Joe". 00:39:02:00 B W 1900s ms VS ANNA HELD (1873-1918) posing for CAM with her pet dogs. Musical comedy vaudevillian and wife of Florenz Ziegfeld showing her acclaimed expressive eyes. 00:39:43:00 B W 1900s ms A 1905 social dance breaks up in a free-for-all "riot" of confetti throwing. 00:40:28:00 B W 1900s ms WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN (1860-1925), Democratic Party leader speaks (silent) at a rally in Washington baseball park. 00:41:15:00 B W 1900s ms Segment of a 1905 comedy, "The Hoodoo Car". Couple, with driver wearing a duster, go for a ride, car breaks down while it is undergoing repair, the woman jumps out of the car and takes off with a man driving by in a buggy cart. 00:42:30:00 B W 1900s ms Clip of horse and buggy. 00:42:47:00 B W 1900s ms Officials and public crowd cross from New York City Hall to the new Subway entrance (Oct. 1904). Police ranks hold back the crowd as they enter the Subway. INT subway station platform, women in fine dresses on the subway platform. 00:43:31:00 B W 1900s ms Camera follows subway train as it rides the underground tunnel and arrives at Grand Central station. Well dressed subway riders, some wearing top hats, on the platform. Well dressed mother and children about to board a subway car. 00:43:53:00 B W 1900s ms Repeat of # 0070 00:44:25:00 B W 1900s ms Inside her dressing room at the theater and with her maid in attendance, LILLIAN RUSSELL (1861-1922) poses for CAM in a wide brim egret hat and decolletage gown. 00:44:43:00 B W 1900s ms Passengers waving from the decks of the White Star steamship, TITANIC about to depart on its maiden voyage from Portsmouth Southampton (April 1912). 00:45:08:00 B W 1900s ms Captain E.J. Smith in dress uniform appears on the ship's bridge. 00:45:20:00 B W 1900s ms the Titanic with funnel stacks, smoking. 00:45:30:00 B W 1900s ms,cu Newspaper headline of the Titanic sea disaster. 00:46:10:00 B W 1900s ms Scenes of crowd outside the shipping office (streetcar seen going by in BG). 00:46:22:00 B W 1900s ms the rescue ship, Carpathia, on its way to New York City. 00:46:35:00 B W 1900s ms Surviving crew men. 00:46:45:00 B W 1900s ms Memorial service at sea for the Titanic. An iceberg in the north atlantic ocean (Taps on soundtrack). 00:46:51:00 B W 1900s ms March-1897, Inauguration of WILLIAM MCKINLEY----View of Washington DC street crowd walking outdoors on way to the Inaugural. Black Horse Cavalry leads the inaugural parade. Carriage containing President Cleveland riding next to McKinley.., V.P. Garrett Hobart rides alone in a following carriage. 00:47:46:00 B W 1900s ms March 15, 1897, William McKinley seen speaking and gesticulating to crowd gathered in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. at the dedication of a monument to G. Washington. 00:48:17:00 B W 1900s ms Well dressed students leaving the entrance of a Boston, Mass. high school. Wearing hobble skirts and pill box and garland brimmed hats. 00:48:55:00 B W 1900s ms Italian scenes in 1897. Cathedral in Milan, St. Marks church and square in Venice (with visitors feeding the pigeons). Gondola boats. 00:49:49:00 B W 1900s ms HARRY HOUDINI in 1910 in Australia. Puts on his flying cap and goggles, hops into an early biplane, adjusts the wing spans, spins the propeller, and the airplane is seen lifting off the ground and flying. 00:50:54:00 B W 1900s ms KING EDWARD VII, about 1901, reviews the helmeted and armed Royal Guard troops. 00:51:31:00 B W 1900s ms Visiting with KING VICTOR EMMANUEL of Italy in 1903. Kings wearing naval uniforms aboard ship. Both royal families sit for photo portraits on the ship's deck. Edward lights up a cigar with Queen Alexandra standing alongside. 00:52:20:00 B W 1900s ms Large Labor Day Parade turnout in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1904. Firemen ride horsedrawn engines. Young couples ride horse buggies. Flags flying. Crowds look at car cars riding in the parade.
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