Frederick S. Armitage

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

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

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. The...

Filming of a character sketch by the well-known vaudevillian Charles E. Grapewin. On a bare stage backed by a dark curtain, a man dressed in a...

Seeing New York by Yacht.

In this short film, a white piece of wall bisects the screen; There are two different rooms on either side of the dividing line, but one hilarious...

Willie puts a pack of firecrackers in the flour which Nora is preparing for her dough. A policeman comes in and is entertained by Nora. Willie in the...

The film shows a parade down Fifth Avenue, New York. In the foreground many children, both black and white, can be seen following alongside the...

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,...

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

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

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

This is a single camera position film of muscle-flexing exercises by a professional physical culturist. The expansion, contraction, and flexing of...

In this spirited and suggestive film, an aggressive young man is drenched in rich, high-protein comeuppance, after he attempts to tell a dairymaid...

The milk of human unkindness flows in this 1899 revenge comedy from the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, in which a put-upon dairymaid throws...

A portly clubman comes home after a social session considerably the worse for the wear. In the hall he encounters a suit of armor which has all the...

From a single camera position, two young women are photographed lighting a cigarette. After several puffs, one of the young ladies becomes faint, and...

Two Chinese men (in full regalia) and an American-style tough are sitting at a table, eating out of bowls, all of them using chop sticks; The...

"This is a street scene. The rain has just ceased, and passers-by are lowering their umbrellas. A well-dressed young man meets a pretty girl beneath...

The scene opens with a salesman displaying corsets to the buyer of a country store. He calls in a female model and tries a corset on her. While the...

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,...

Willie puts a pack of firecrackers in the flour which Nora is preparing for her dough. A policeman comes in and is entertained by Nora. Willie in the...

A woman barber is putting the finishing touches on a customer, who is so pleased with the operation that he puts his arms around her and kisses her....

A couple are making love beneath the window of a cranky old gentleman. There is a handsome window garden above them filled with plants and flowers....

An interesting view of Central Park before there was a skyline of buildings. All along the length of the park on both sides and to the north, with...

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 her first...

Taken during the land parade in honor of Admiral Dewey, just before the turn into 72nd street, with Grant's Tomb and decorated residences in the...

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

A combination of the picture entitled "The Ballet of the Ghosts," and a surf scene; the resulting effect being that the ghostly figures rise up out...

The famous Parisian chanteuse in the rag-time cakewalk 'Hello, Ma Baby,' with which she made such a sensation at the New York Theatre.

Photographed February 5, 1900.

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 her first...

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,...

The film is part of Eye Filmmuseum’s Mutoscope and Biograph Collection. This collection consists of about 200 films preserved on their original...