A cowboy rides a bucking bronco in what appears to be a rodeo setting. He is either bucked off or makes an unceremonious dismount -- it's really hard to tell. This film was originally produced to be viewed in a Kinetoscope peep-show machine.

From a Depression-era documentary that describes the importance of the Mississippi River. Written and directed by Pare Lorentz The complete film can be found at: http://www.archive.org/details/RiverThe1937

Shooting the chutes at Coney Island, New York, in 1896. From a paper print in the Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.

Excerpt From "The Plow That Broke The Plains": http://www.archive.org/details/PlowThatBrokethePlains1

Skaters frolic on the lake in Central Park, New York City, in the midst of a snowstorm.

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

Excerpt from: "Henry Ford's Mirror On America" Part One of the complete film can be found at: http://www.archive.org/details/HenryFor1962 Part Two of the complete film can be found at: http://www.archive.org/details/HenryFor1962_2

This "racy" scene is from the New York stage comedy, "The Widow Jones," in which May Irwin and John Rice starred. According to Edison film historian C. Musser, the actors staged their kiss for the camera at the request of the New York World newspaper, and the resulting film was the most popular Edison Vitascope film in 1896.