Frederick S. Armitage

Film taken from a boat heading down the Hudson is shown at varying speeds, often giving a sense of rapid transit.

Special effects film with a train double exposed on the negative, creating a ghostly image.

In this picture there is a limited amount of action in the pose. As the curtains are drawn aside the shell appears shut. It gradually opens, ...

Stage star Anna Held (1872-1918) riffs on her once-famous scene from the comedy Papa’s Wife (1899-1901) featuring a naif getting tipsy on ...

Time-lapse photography showing the one month-long demolition of the Star Theatre in New York.

A combination of the picture entitled “The Ballet of the Ghosts,” and a surf scene; the resulting effect being that the ghostly ...

A woman in ballet slippers wearing a large white hat and a long white dress – with ruffles, puffy sleeves and petticoats – dances ...

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. ...

A splendid picture of the remarkable centrifuge railroad at Coney Island in which the car makes a complete circle in its course around the track, ...

“The filmmaker took several different scenes shot earlier between 1896 and 1899 and double-printed two sets of images together to create a new ...