William Heise Movies

Several men in a basement barbershop become excited by women walking past the window. The ankles and knees of the passersby are visible to the men...

The famous show makes a parade.

Four men at work in a forge. The uses hammers and and anvil to beat metal.

The skaters dart to and fro, swinging their hockeys and trying to hit the disc toward the goal.

"Musicians are seated, playing, while the graceful Dolorita dances. It is the Danse-du-Ventre, the famous Oriental muscle dance."

An athlete demonstrating various poses.

The victim is lying on a trolley car fender. Ambulance drives up and the injured man is removed in a stretcher.

Great horse racing on the famous Hartford track, showing start and finish of a 2.04 3/4 heat run by the fastest harness horse in the world, John R....

The stars-and-stripes and the flag of Cuba Libre flutter in the breeze, one after the other. Very dramatic. Appeals to the popular sentiment....

The Reading's [Pennsylvania] pitcher has just let a Newark [New Jersey] batsman walk to first. Our camera is stationed about twenty feet from the...

This single camera position film shows an officer and six enlisted men of the army as they demonstrate the assembly drill of a gatling gun. See also:...

Views of Buffalo Bills Wild West Show.

Princess Ali, of Barnum and Bailey's circus, performs an Egyptian dance in the Edison Company's studio. As she dances, some musicians perform in the...

Vaudeville dancer Amy Muller performs a portion of her stage routine, which features dancing on her toes. She dances on one toe for part of the...

The participants are natives of Ceylon. Their dance is very interesting being so different from Western ideas of harmonies of motion.

A preadolescent boy, dressed like a street urchin, performs acrobatic stunts for the camera.

"Two German anglers are fishing, with odd results. One gets a bite, and pulls in a length of stovepipe. The other is so astonished that he falls...

"Shows the beach at Long Branch, N.J. immediately after a heavy storm. The breaking waves dash over a row of spiles, throwing a spray high into the...

Shows ten horses hitched to fashionable carts driven past the judges and grandstand to show their style, action and high-stepping movements. Among...