A.E. Weed

Seeing New York by Yacht.

A couple of Sunday school teachers invite Chinese laundry workers to their session. In return the Chinese invite them to an opium den, where the devout schoolmarms quickly abandon their morals!

A parade by denizens of one of the Oriental Concessions, The Pike, St. Louis.

A splendid picture showing a parade of decorated floats, representing various nations on one Grand Lagoon at the St. Louis Exposition-The Cascades, Festival Hall and it's picturesque surroundings in the background. This picture is remarkably fine photographically, and of unusual interest, inasmuch as the floats come very near to the camera and a very fair view of the occupants is given.

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, dark-haired woman enters through the door on stage right, unbuttoning a full-length polka-dot costume. As she undresses, she frequently looks directly at the camera and smiles. She removes her sash or cummerbund, the top with its trailing sleeves, and her skirt, leaving her clothed only in a sleeveless chemise. Smiling directly at the camera, she mischievously slips a strap of the garment off one shoulder, then ducks behind the screen.

It's a very windy day, and the pedestrians passing by the Flatiron Building are having considerable difficulty in keeping their hats from flying off.

Seeing New York by Yacht.

A couple of Sunday school teachers invite Chinese laundry workers to their session. In return the Chinese invite them to an opium den, where the devout schoolmarms quickly abandon their morals!

A parade by denizens of one of the Oriental Concessions, The Pike, St. Louis.

A splendid picture showing a parade of decorated floats, representing various nations on one Grand Lagoon at the St. Louis Exposition-The Cascades, Festival Hall and it's picturesque surroundings in the background. This picture is remarkably fine photographically, and of unusual interest, inasmuch as the floats come very near to the camera and a very fair view of the occupants is given.

It's a very windy day, and the pedestrians passing by the Flatiron Building are having considerable difficulty in keeping their hats from flying off.

Another example of early filmmakers capturing on film anything that happened to be moving in America in 1904.

We see a man sporting a derby hat and walrus moustache hang a mail sack on one of those poles that stand beside a railway track followed by a second shot of the sack being snatched up by a passing train which also jettisons another sack onto the ground as it passes.

Basically, all we see is a group of kids of varying ages bouncing toy balls on the classroom floor then throwing them up in the air.

Exhibition by Uncle Sam's troops in the Filipino Concession at the St. Louis Exposition

A womens' basketball game from 1904, documented.