William Heise Movies

Experimental film that follows up on the results of "Monkeyshines, No. 1" and "Monkeyshines, No. 2". Once again, an Edison company worker moves...

"This scene shows almost the entire Fire Department led by the Chief, responding to an alarm. The horses, said to be the finest of their kind in the...

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...

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

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

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

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:...

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...

Three sisters dance the Mikado in this very early film from the Edison company.

The American flag waving in the wind.

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

Director: William Heise Production Company: Edison Manufacturing Company Country: USA

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...

By Fiji Islanders. A peculiar dance by genuine artists, dressed or rather undressed, in their native garb. The revel takes its name from the paddles...

Samoan Islanders from Barnum & Bailey's Circus perform a dance.

"Two men, with hands tied, are eating huckleberry pies for a wager, direct from the plates. Their faces and shirts are clean when they start. Extra...

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

"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...