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A short 1896 actuality depicting the Black Diamond Express as it approaches and speeds passed the camera. Directed by James H. White |
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A short 1897 actuality depicting a Southern Pacific Railroad train with a mail car exiting a tunnel. Directed by James H. White |
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A short actuality from 1901 showing the passage of the Empire State Express train. Directed by Frederick S. Armitage |
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Two Pennsylvania Railroad locomotives meet in a head-on collision in this 1904 short. Directed by Edwin S. Porter |
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A pickpocket’s simple robbery escalates into a crime far more serious aboard a train. |
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A benevolent spirit battles a spectral skeleton who has kidnapped women that he keeps captive in his infernal lair. Directed by Segundo de Chomón and Ferdinand Zecca |
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A traveler is tormented by ghosts and poltergeists at a haunted hotel. Starring William V. Ranous · Directed by J. Stuart Blackton |
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Chariot racer Ben Hur competes against his enemy Messala and against Rome’s occupation of Jerusalem. Starring Herman Rottger and William S. Hart · Directed by Sidney Olcott, Frank Oakes Rose, and H. Temple |
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An honest one-armed beggar gets a less than honest artificial limb — one with kleptomaniacal tendencies that land him in jail. Starring Paul Panzer · Directed by J. Stuart Blackton |
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Caught off-guard by Indian mutineers, a British soldier saves his last bullet for his daughter lest she be taken. Starring Charles Kent and Florence Turner |