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Sailors practice rescuing someone who's fallen overboard.
Sep 1899
Scene from the second act of The Prince of Wales Theatre production.
Sep 1900
Two boxers miss their punches - until they don't.
Sep 1897
Prince Edward of York, executing the manual of arms with the British flag.
Jan 1900
Prince Edward of York, executing the manual of arms, attended by Prince Albert, and Princess Victoria, of York.
Several members of European Royalty, including the Duke and Duchess of York, and Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, seated round a tea-table in the grounds of Clarence House.
Jan 1897
Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Jan 1899
Black hooded pallbearers carry a coffin in a funeral procession in front of onlookers.
Jan 1898
A sweet little girl is seated in the bow of a life-boat feeding crackers to a magnificent St. Bernard dog, while a tabby cat dozes and blinks at her side.
Apr 1898
Horatio Herbert Kitchener gets an enviable welcome on his return from the Second Boer War.
Dec 1902
"In his characterization of Capt. Dreyfus and Emile Zola."
The pope resting.
Jun 1898
This Victorian duel between knife-wielding women was taken from an existing stage production, thought to be the Drury Lane theatre melodrama 'Women and Wine'. The actresses are believed to be Edith Blanche and Beatrice Homer.
Oct 1898
Showing the tapping of the furnace, and the running of the molten metal into the moulds at Elswick yard.
Based on Shakespeare's play, Act V, Scene vii: King John is in torment, and his supporters fear that his end is near. As he writhes in agony, he is attended by Prince Henry, the Earl of Pembroke, and Robert Bigot. Prince Henry tries repeatedly to comfort his delirious father, but to no avail - John's pain is too great.
Two men with three lordships between them.
Nov 1898
Sailors disembarking on the beach in Scheveningen, Netherlands. Shot on 68 mm Mutoscope-Biograph.
"A splendid picture showing this notable family of jugglers in their restaurant scene, in which they toss dishes and chairs about with marvelous dexterity."
Aug 1898