Women suffragettes visit TR at Sagamore (1917)
Suffragists open New York's 1917 campaign for the vote with a visit to Theodore Roosevelt. Two months later, they won.
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Suffragists open New York's 1917 campaign for the vote with a visit to Theodore Roosevelt. Two months later, they won.
Poets Josephine Miles and Elder Olson read and talk about their work with James Dickey, Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress. A 1968 TV session.
Cells divide and grow on screen: yeast, amoebae, paramecia, hydra and flatworms, plus tissue cells. A mid-1940s science film.
Count Johann von Bernstorff, German ambassador to the U.S. from 1908 to 1917, sits in a car, chatting with an unidentified man.
Theodore Roosevelt speaks to suffragists from his porch at Sagamore Hill, September 1917.
Poets Louise Bogan and J. V. Cunningham read their own work and field questions, with William Jay Smith moderating. A 1968 TV poetry hour.
A backstage tour of NBC radio and television in 1949, with rehearsals, broadcasts and the departments behind them.
Kaiser Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany, strolls toward the camera with German officers, and turns up in several other scenes in a series of short views.
Theodore Roosevelt and General Leonard Wood at New York's International Flower Show, March 1917.
P.L. Travers, creator of Mary Poppins, reads from her book to a group of children, then takes their questions about writing.
WPA crews build sewage plants and sewers, run clinics and sewing rooms, and teach classes across the Depression-era country. 1937.
Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra leave what may be a church in Russia, passing between lines of Cossack guards before the Czar rides off.
In summer 1919, Edward, Prince of Wales, visits Theodore Roosevelt's grave on his tour of the Dominions. Royalty pays respects, newsreel style.
Rod Serling sits down in 1968 to talk with James Dickey and Bernie Harrison about American television and what a writer can do with it.
A 1945 plea to buy victory bonds, with scenes of wartime ruin and a push to rebuild.
A family takes the train to the country for a picnic, drinks new wine at a riverside cafe and then needs to find a place to relieve themselves.
On May 27, 1916, a band, men and children march to Sagamore Hill to back Theodore Roosevelt's presidential bid, and he addresses the crowd.
John Updike and Peter Taylor read their short stories and talk shop, with poet James Dickey moderating. A 1967 TV sit-down among literary heavyweights.
A 1934 trailer for Little Man, What Now?, about a young German clerk and his wife in hard times. Margaret Sullavan stars, in Spanish.
Street life in New York's Spanish Harlem in the 1940s: kids, stoops and sidewalks, caught on the fly.
A silent close-up of Theodore Roosevelt's gravestone at Oyster Bay, New York, 1920. Quiet, simple, historical.
Poets Ben Belitt and John Frederick Nims read their own work and translations, moderated by James Dickey. A 1967 TV poetry conversation.
Excerpts from All-American News, the newsreel made for Black audiences in the 1940s, from May 1945. Social life, wartime service and community news.
A college student creates the perfect human in a vat of burning chemicals, then regrets it on his wedding day. Edison's early silent take on Frankenstein.
In October 1919 the Roosevelt memorial flag, carried across New York State, is brought to Theodore Roosevelt's grave in Oyster Bay.
A three-member board mediates a family dispute about a private school and traditional symbols. A 1959 episode of Court of Human Relations.
A rancher's daughter and a cowboy fall in love, until a rejected Easterner steals the father's horse and frames the cowboy. Early silent excerpts.
October 1916: Teddy Roosevelt stumps for Charles Evans Hughes in Albuquerque. Horseback rider with flowers, an auto parade, and TR in an open touring car.
Ira Gershwin leafs through the Porgy and Bess score, then the film moves on to portraits and paintings of and by the Gershwins.
Home movies of Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon: a California beach house, lounging with their mothers at home, and showing off baby daughter Barbara.
How the Panama Canal came to be: the need, the early attempts, the construction and the finished canal, which Theodore Roosevelt prized.
Home movies of David Shepard at about age four, 1942 to 1943, playing with a reel of film. Shot on Kodachrome.
Members of Theodore Roosevelt's expedition party pose aboard the ship Vandyck, including explorer Anthony Fiala and ornithologist George K. Cherrie.
Silent, edited footage of the December 6, 1969 Altamont Speedway concert, with Santana, Jefferson Airplane and the Stones. Opens and closes on a fire.
Ira Gershwin, Edward G. Robinson and friends play runway models in a Gershwin backyard garden fashion show, with a pool for a catwalk.
A quick tour of the Library of Congress, from dime novels and a Gutenberg Bible to Houdini's books, Whitman's poems and Beethoven's scores.
De Wolf Hopper recites Ernest Thayer's baseball poem in a 1922 sound-on-film recording. The mighty Casey, with a voice.
Factory worker Adam Hathaway sees productivity as husband, worker, foreman and company president. A 1958 split-screen lesson.
George Gershwin films Fred Astaire doing "Slap That Bass" on the set of Shall We Dance. Director Mark Sandrich pops in. A fragment.
Girls' teams play basketball in front of a three-story brick school. A very early motion picture, filmed from the sideline.
How gold and diamonds are dug and processed in South Africa's Transvaal, with street scenes of Johannesburg and Kimberley. A 1917 travelogue.
After school integration in St. Louis, a racial incident erupts at Beaumont High. A 1956 documentary on how the board planned it.
Home movies of George and Ira Gershwin from 1935 to 1939, most in color. A peek at the brothers off duty.
Tommy ties a cord to Grandpa's chair and the other end to a bureau drawer. A maid opens it, and chaos follows. An early prank comedy.
A mountain girl is left by a faithless lowlander, and her fierce brother goes to town to force a wedding. A 1916 Mack Sennett short, not a comedy.
A 1960 Frigidaire film arguing that the feminine design of its appliances makes the kitchen the center of family life. Very much of its time.
A late night out sparks a fight between 14-year-old Ken and his dad. A 1970 film on how parents and teens can actually talk.
Babe Ruth and the Yankees and Boston Braves in spring training at Waterfront Park. A 1929 Grantland Rice sports reel with a gate-crasher in the mix.
A USDA film ties the growth of American farming to the country's rise, from pioneer homesteads to land-grant colleges.
A cartoonist sketches a comical elderly gentleman, then draws a bottle of wine. Early trick film magic with pen and paper.
A fictionalized Helen Keller story from a childhood fever through Radcliffe and adult life. A 1919 silent that includes a flight in an airplane.
An auto mechanic hears a radio show praising the cooperation of ants and gets carried away. A 1950 cartoon with a political message.
A WWI pilot hero returns to his old job as a railroad detective and hunts a missing payroll and $25,000. An early Black-cast mystery.
Opening day for the Oakland Oaks against the San Francisco Seals, 1918. Vaudeville dancer Doraldina parades in a baseball uniform and throws the first pitch.
Angelique moves from France to Los Angeles to marry an American architect and tries to be a good housewife. An episode of a 1961 sitcom.
Harry teases his girl's father about his bad fishing luck and is banned from seeing her. A slapstick short from Mack Sennett's early days.
Buster Brown and his dog Tige tease a balloon vendor near the Flatiron Building in this 1904 comic strip come to life.
French newlywed Angel keeps learning American ways in Los Angeles, and this episode brings in a goat dog. A 1961 CBS sitcom.
Liza Minnelli's second or third birthday party, plus more Gershwin-circle home movies with Judy Garland and Harold and Anya Arlen. Ira was her godfather.
Angelique moves from France to marry an American architect and tries her best to be a good housewife in Los Angeles. A 1961 CBS comedy episode.
Delegates gather outside the Congress Hotel at the 1916 Republican National Convention in Chicago, with Governor Whitman of New York in the mix.
Angel, a French bride in Los Angeles, persuades her husband to coach a neighborhood Little League. A 1961 sitcom episode.
A crowd leaves the Claremont Theatre in New York, where Edison is showing On the Stroke of Twelve. 1915 moviegoing, in the lobby.
Angel, newly arrived from France, thinks she has won a trailer, but two con men have talked her into a contract. This is the trailer for the episode.
Two men dance to a violinist in an 1895 experiment for Edison's Kinetophone, which paired film with a phonograph. This copy is silent.
Angelique, newly arrived from France and married to an architect in Los Angeles, tries to be a good housewife. A 1961 sitcom episode.
W.K.L. Dickson's 1891 greeting, made on an experimental horizontal-feed Edison camera. One of the very first moving pictures.
Ten-year-old Tommy is caught taking money from his teacher's purse, and a psychiatrist at a guidance clinic tries to understand why. 1951 drama.
Boys in caps and girls in fancy hats walk down the steps at the end of a school day. A 1914 look at teenagers headed home.
A three-member board mediates disputes. This case: an 18-year-old who wants to marry and a fiancé who wants to wait six years. 1959 TV.
Gertie the dinosaur, who lives in the present day, meets a train and dreams of being the life of the party. Excerpts from the Winsor McCay classic.
Lakota dancers sway to a hide drum in a 1894 W.K.L. Dickson film made for the Edison studio. Eleven dancers, a mallet beating in the corner of the frame.
Ira Gershwin's home movie of a pro men's tennis match, probably featuring Bill Tilden. 1939.
Lon Chaney and his wife Hazel clown around with friends Mabel and Bill Dunphy, playing with a dog and trying out vaudeville routines. A 1928 home movie.
Color film of American troops coming ashore in Normandy in 1944: landing craft, ships' guns firing, barrage balloons overhead.
The 25 winners of a contest to promote Mary Pickford's first sound film, Coquette. A 1929 sales stunt, preserved.
Boys and freight trains frame a 1953 tour of what the chemical industry gives the world. Curiosity, exploring and a lot of chemistry.
A masked woman in 18th-century dress drifts through moonlit fountains at the Villa d'Este, finally becoming one with the water. Vivaldi plays.
American troops in North Africa and Egypt in 1943, in color: docks, a military parade, bomb-damaged buildings, tanks and troops in action.
A religious procession in Seville and bullfights in Seville, Béziers and Nîmes, shot in the late 1800s. French camera, Spanish scenes.
A store manager dreams of talking appliances in famous voices, plus a spring sales event. A Westinghouse sales film, 1952.
A speeding salesman picks a tour of a wrecked-car graveyard over a fine. A 1957 traffic safety film from Southwestern Bell.
Annie Callahan and Maggie Murphy feud across the alley while their kids fall in love. An excerpt from a 1927 comedy.
A class election turns ugly, and a teacher steps in to understand why kids use their fists. A 1952 short on childhood violence.
Three plastics experts chat on a transcontinental flight about how plastics shaped everyday life. A 1952 Union Carbide promo.
A 1926 silent theater commercial telling moviegoers to buy an electric refrigerator, and to visit a refrigerator show.
A 1961 social guidance film warns girls about the dangers of molesters, with four case histories and babysitting tips. Dated and sobering.
A reel of Vitagraph film fragments copied from paper prints, around 1909. Snippets of silent shorts that survived on photographic paper.
A 1955 film on the life habits of cockroaches, the four common kinds, how they get in, and how to control them. Dated pest advice.
A reel of Vitagraph film fragments copied from paper prints, around 1908. Snippets of silent shorts that survived on photographic paper.
High school newcomer Jean falls victim to a malicious rumor started by her first date. A 1953 classroom lesson on gossip.
A family drowning in automatic gadgets forgets to talk to one another. A 1958 student film about life beyond the robot existence.
A 21-year-old's first film turns Bronx streets into abstractions, then into kids at play and summer commerce. Jay Leyda's city symphony, 1931.
A 1956 classroom film on how to take a test: knowing what's covered, mastering new words, and studying smart.
A women's club in Wisconsin Dells falls asleep during a lecture on the Soviet threat and wakes up in a Russian collective. Amateur satire, 1932.
Don and Mildred miss their class assembly because of sloppy grooming. A 1956 classroom lesson on keeping clean and neat.
March 1944 edition for Black audiences: Harry McAlpin, the first Black reporter with White House press credentials, plus Buddy Young and more.
Elephants, camels and floats parade through a circus tent, then a horse race takes over. Edison's 1901 view of the Forepaugh and Sells Bros. circus.
A 1952 film defining good mental health in four steps: express emotions naturally, respect yourself, respect others and solve problems early.
September 1944 newsreel for Black audiences: Red Cross director Evelyn Vaughan back from the front, and a look at housing.
Thomas Edison at 74, in his office and at a light bulb factory, where he oversees production. A 1922 day in the life.
A short educational film on how Saudi Arabia finds, draws and conserves water. Wells, pumps and desert, circa 1950.
An old gentleman fights his razor and loses his patience. Edison's 1900 gag is a comedy of facial expression, all in one shot.
A barrio woman rebels against her abusive husband, and other women from her community join in. A 1956 short drama from Puerto Rico.
Mazie lends her gold necklace to Nellie, who loses it, and her boyfriend Sam promises to replace it. A 1910 Biograph comedy of errors.
A 1951 social guidance film warns teenagers how clever crooks work lovers' lanes, baby-sitting jobs and pick-ups. Stagey, dated, and very stern.
An 1896 short of a mother scrubbing a struggling child in a tub of suds. A staged gag of its day that leans on dated stereotypes.
A 1954 series highlights Black political appointments under Eisenhower and local election wins. Parade of progress, newsreel style.
A 1904 Edison tour of a county fair: trained horses, sulky races and prize animals. The title uses period slang for country folk.
A high school girl walks through her health routine: daily shower, fresh clothes, hair and teeth care, balanced meals and sleep. A 1952 classic.
Edison's 1900 camera lashed to the stern of a ship crossing the Atlantic captures a rough ocean in the middle of a storm.
A boy gets ready for school while the narrator makes the case for baths, clean nails and a good breakfast. Classic grooming advice from Coronet.
A lawyer sobs and hugs his client, and the prisoner picks his watch and chain. A 1906 Pathe comic short about courtroom sympathy.
How the Library of Congress turned over two million feet of paper-print film rolls into 16mm safety film, step by step with the Renovare process.
Summer 1912 at Sagamore Hill: Theodore Roosevelt sorts his mail with son Archie's help, with views of the house and grounds.
Western Europe in 1951 has three million more mouths to feed every year. Part of a six-film series checking on postwar recovery.
Admiral George Dewey, the hero of Manila Bay, filmed at Gibraltar on his way home in September 1899.
A 1959 film that argues jazz is an expression of Black Americans' situation, mixing drama, direct address and documentary scenes. Made in Chicago.
After the launch of the Japanese warship Chitose in San Francisco, a pleasure yacht cruises past in the foreground. An 1898 Edison actuality.
A 1960 pitch to bowling center owners recasting bowling as a spotless, automated suburban family outing.
A sidewalk crowd in Albany watches fourteen pieces of horse-drawn fire equipment race past. A 1901 view of horsepower at work.
A 1957 dramatic short about an overweight man's rough few minutes in New York's Penn Station. A dated look at how weight was discussed.
Contractor Hiram goes for a glass of milk and is mistaken for a laborer by Sophia, while he thinks she is the maid. A 1910 mix-up comedy.
A 1959 promo for soft drink vending machines, shown off with bold shape, color and texture as part of America's new look.
A camel caravan up the Nile meets a tribe of Bicharyn Arabs who perform and show off their children. A 1908 Pathe travelogue with an outsider's eye.
A 1956 history of television, from the labs that built black-and-white and color sets to broadcasts, with animated explainers of cameras and transmitters.
A dressmaker disassembles a dummy, and onlookers mistake his shadows for a brutal murder. A 1915 Mack Sennett comedy with Louise Fazenda.
A 1951 scare film follows a typical teenage girl from a marijuana cigarette to heroin. Stern, stagey and very much of its time.
King Ambrose picks a queen, and a young rival named Robin tries to steal her. A 1915 Keystone comedy of kings and mischief.
The Balinese kris dance, a ceremonial drama of the witch and the dragon, performed in the village of Pagoetan in 1937. Trance included.
A group of 1940s high schoolers shows why some teens are liked and others aren't, when new student Caroline Ames arrives. A classic social guidance short.
Ambrose gets fired by a garment factory owner and turns vengeful, with a kidnapping that goes wrong. A 1915 Keystone comedy.
Five teens grumble that their star basketball player is missing, and learn he was benched for drinking. A 1955 classroom discussion film.
The electrical work behind Chicago's Chevrolet sky sign on Michigan Avenue, from workers on the outside to wiring on the inside. 1935.
Calvin Coolidge, wife Grace and their sons at home in autumn 1919, around his re-election as Massachusetts governor.
Union leaders introduce a dramatization of a garment worker's memories of life before the union. A 1950 labor film with a very pointed message.
A dramatized warning from the wartime Office of Price Administration about black marketeers selling beef. 1943.
A well-dressed couple order boiled eggs and Welsh rarebit in a fashionable cafe, and the food starts to misbehave. Edison's 1900 trick comedy.
Weekly 1950 television newsreel on women in all walks of life, with Maureen O'Brien, recruiting and employment segments. A time capsule.
A wealthy heir elopes with a nightclub singer who can't cook. After the breakup, she learns, and serves the perfect meal. A 1940 appliance-sponsored comedy.
A Chinese man is arrested and led away in San Francisco's Chinatown while a crowd looks on. An 1897 Edison view, staged or not, from a dated outsider's eye.
A weekly 1950 television newsreel about women at work and play, from businesswomen and athletes to housewives and celebrities.
A 1941 documentary on the manufacture, speed and power of the B-26 bomber. Industrial pride at wartime volume.
Immigrants line up on Ellis Island, then another group arrives at the dock. A 1906 glimpse of one of America's busiest gateways.
Manteno State Hospital's staff put recreation, work and industrial therapy to work for psychiatric patients. A 1953 look at how it was done.