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Includes the early days of the horseless carriage, Columbus Circle 1900, Fifth Avenue in 1900, Spanish American War films, Duke of Windsor as a child, return of the Spanish War veterans, Dewey Flagship, Coney Island, death of President Mc Kinley, Theodore Roosevelt takes oath of office, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
05:01:44:24 VS stock footage from around 1901 of man cranking antique automobile then driving off with two women; woman in backseats holds large bouquet of flowers; great stock shots of early horseless carriages in New York City in 1900.
05:02:59:07 Great shot around 1900, paperboy in city street selling newspapers to men, horse-drawn trolleys pass by in background; VS busy New York City street around 1900 where horseless carriages have been banned, only horse-drawn carriages.
05:03:49:04 Bicycle race at Columbus Circle in New York City in 1900; young men hold up banner “Columbia Winds.”
05:04:05:17 Stock shot of early Manhattan commuter train around 1900 pulling into the station; train engineer runs alongside train on platform and grabs bundle of paper from engineer inside train.
05:04:20:28 Bourgeois New Yorkers in what is probably Central Park around 1900; VS New York City; Fifth Avenue Easter parade.
05:05:21:15 Footage of reenactment of battle scene from the Spanish-American War; motion picture was shown at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York in 1901.
05:06:42:14 Great footage from 1901 of miniature reenactment of the Battle of Manila Bay photographed in a pioneer studio in Chicago; miniature battleships in water producing real smoke from their smokestacks; battleship explodes; miniature battleship sinks.
05:08:18:21 Antique footage of Niagara Falls around turn of the twentieth century.
05:08:48:00 Duke of Windsor as a child; three grandchildren of King Edward VII of England, Edward, George and Mary; boy in center poses with toy gun.
05:09:47:06 VS old footage of the return of the Spanish-American War veterans, soldiers marching up Fifth Avenue; Dewey’s flagship in dry dock after victory in Manila Bay.
05:10:26:28 VS Coney Island; women run onto ride; great shot of ride where one rides a boat down a large slide, passing underneath a bridge and into pool of water. Women riding on camels. Man bounces up and down on tightrope; woman walks on tightrope while carrying an umbrella.
- Archive
- Internet Archive, in Prelinger Archives
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- Film Classics Exchange
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- Automatic captions
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