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Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress

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Inside an American Factory Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904	The Last Days of a President Films of McKinley and the Buffalo World's Fair, 1901
The Life of a City Early Films of New York, 1898-1906	Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916

The American Variety Stage Collection
also features 61 motion pictures depicting various
vaudeville acts from the turn of the century.

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These motion pictures represent the first chapter in the history of the medium. Most are actuality films with a running time of two or three minutes, although a handful exceed ten minutes.

Early Motion Pictures: An Introduction

Actuality Films: A Short-Lived Genre

America at the Turn of the Century: A Look at the Historical Context

The Paper Print Film Collection at the Library of Congress

Selected Bibliography

Technical Note on how to view these films

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