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The film opens on a dressing room set with a mirror, dressing table, and chair center stage and a folded dressing screen on the left. A smiling, ...

At the royal court, a prince is presenting the princess whom he is pledged to marry when a witch suddenly appears. Though driven off, the witch ...

A professor eating his lunch at his work table becomes suspicious of the taste of his cheese. He puts a slice under the nearby microscope. But ...

Merrymakers at Luna Park, Coney Island enjoying a ride on the famous camel, “Holy Moses.”

A sentry is surprised by a bear and is trapped atop his guardhouse, until the timely intervention of a thief distracts the bear.

Shows a number of young men and women playing leap-frog. The men stoop over and the girls jump upon their backs and are bounced until they fall ...

The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.

A box of valued jewels is placed inside the tomb of Delphi. A thief breaks into the tomb and steals it, but soon the ghost of Delphi appears and ...

Shows a large open barge loaded with people of every nationality, disembarking at Ellis Island, N. Y. A most interesting and typical scene.

An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx.

A magician transforms a woman into a portrait of herself, then restores her to life.

The first scene shows a country couple entering Steeplechase Park. They proceed to amuse themselves on the steeplechase…

A woman being fitted for shoes exposes her ankle to the shoe clerk, who is intrigued. He kisses her, but her chaperone hits him with her umbrella.

Men on the streetcar offer their seats to pretty women, but not to an ugly woman.

Looking for evidence that her husband may have been unfaithful, a woman is in a hotel, accompanied by a witness, and they are peeking through the ...

Entry in a series about the United States Postal Service.

It shows a postman ascending a flight of half-dozen stairs to the front door of a house and ringing its bell then delivering mail to the person ...

A static shot of a river disguised as a very big puddle. The film is about a minute long, and for probably fifty seconds of that one minute we ...

The first scene appears to have been taken on a main thoroughfare of large city. In the immediate foreground is a horse-drawn U.S. mail vehicle ...

In a way this is a sequel to the hit film ‘Clerks Casing Mail for Bags’ also made in 1903.

Another in a series of films made for the USPO in 1903, this short shows a small coach pulling up outside a rural post office. A man climbs out ...

American Mutoscope & Biograph made a whole series of these films covering everything from the mail being collected from post boxes to being ...

A couple of guys sort letters into pigeon-holes, another empties sacks of post and stamps the letters before passing them to a portly chap who is ...

Yet another in a vast series of films made by American Mutoscope & Biograph for the United States Postal Service which demonstrated all ...

This film, one in a seemingly endless series of films made by American Mutoscope & Biograph for the United States Post Office, stands out by ...

This one shows the wagon that collected mail sacks from a streetcar in Washington pulling up besides a railroad mail car before reversing up to it.

Another early short presenting the workings of the Postal Service.

As a study of a man at work (sorting through a large collection of mail – presumably cancelled judging by this short’s title) this ...

The wagon drops of a parcel of mail in the post box which is immediately collected by a gentleman who was clearly waiting stage left for his cue.

Kathryn Osterman was a legitimate actress who worked occasionally in the movies during the first decade and a half of the 20th century. This ...