American Mutoscope Biograph Filmes

Billy Bitzer filmed 21 short actualities inside the Pittsburgh Westinghouse Works in April and May of 1904. Audiences of the day would have been...

A young maiden is seduced by a charming traveling peddler who persuades her to steal from her host family in order to repay his gambling debts.

Tells the story of an English aristocrat, apparently in disgrace, who disappears and joins a French battalion in Algeria, loosely based on the...

An experiment goes wrong and blinds a newly married chemist. The chemist's wife does not want to take on the burden of caring for the blind chemist,...

George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal one being drink. One might have concluded he was lost,...

The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.

A train traveling through the Rockies is held up and boarded by two thugs. They rob the wealthy occupants at gunpoint and then make their getaway by...

“The Biograph people tell an excellent story in this, and tell it so strongly that it grips very close. The scene where the husband gets into...

Jones' new house looks like all the others on the street. One night Jones enters the wrong house and finds himself in a precarious situation.

The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his brother to take care of his fatherless sweetheart...

The two brothers and their adopted daughter of the household grew up from childhood together. The girl and the younger brother were childhood...

To a reception there is invited a celebrated professor of hypnotism, and during the evening he obliges with an exhibition of his wonderful powers....

Pretty Miss Chrysanthemum has but little to say as to the disposal of her heart, at least, such is the custom in Japan. Her parents attend to that...

A young woman who works mending fishermen's nets is engaged to be married. But her fiancé has an old love who refuses to let him go. Further,...

A Husband thinks the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. His wife shows him its not.

The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor's small estate to cash. But it...

The view from a moving train shows some of the Westinghouse interests and the surrounding areas.

This is in every respect a stunning picture, though somewhat bohemian in subject. It depicts in six scenes, six lively hours at New York City's...

Howard Norris, a wealthy young man from the city makes the acquaintance of a lovely young daughter of a farmer. By promising marriage, he entices...

This pseudo-newsreel uses special effects to illustrate the fire caused by the San Francisco earthquake. A miniature model of downtown San Francisco...