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- From the front of a cable car, a motion picture camera records a trip down Market Street, San Francisco, California, from a point between 8th & 9th Streets, Eastward to the cable car turnaround at the Ferry Building.
- Swiftly passing through seas of floating ice, a vessel with masts, spars and decks entirely covered with ice is seen pushing its way northward. Seagulls make the air black, and the crew, clothed in heavy furs, move lively, on the lookout for walrus, seal and Polar bear. Within full view are seen in rapid succession seals disporting themselves on the icy brink of bergs. Walrus, with their immense tusks, are shown cavorting through the water, plunging after fish. The comical penguins in great numbers get in front of the camera at close range. The wonderful and mysterious musk-ox in his native haunts is shown life-size, and stamping his disapproval of being brought into such close proximity to man, his natural enemy. Then the critical dramatic moment arrives when the hunters leave their ship and start across the icy fields after his majesty of the Arctic regions. Soon is seen an enormous white Polar bear, slowly meandering in his search for provender. He discovers the hunters, rears on his hind feet, ready to give battle. A masterful shot striking a vital point fells him and he is seen rolling in his own life's blood. The hunters cautiously approach, and when fully convinced of the death of old Bruin, load him on their sleds and start for the ship. Finding the return trip too laborious, they unload their spoils and proceed to strip off the valuable, shaggy coat, remove a choice saddle of bear meat, and leaving the bare carcass freezing in the solitudes of the Arctic, trudge once more to their ship.
- The peace of the anarchist and his wife's house is disturbed by the mother-in-law. He sees no other advice than to blow her up.
- The Treadwell Mine, situated on Douglas Island, Alaska, is the largest gold mine in the world. With an inexhaustible supply of ore, it has produced millions of dollars annually, and will continue to do so for years. The view shows men running to seek shelter from flying debris, then the masses of rock hurled out from across what is known as the "Glory Hole," which is an excavation a mile square and a quarter of a mile deep.
- Snake River runs through the great boom city of Nome, Alaska. It sprang to a population of 3,500 in thirty days in 1900. This view was made in the middle of winter, and shows "Malamoot" and "Huskie" dog teams; also skaters, cyclists, women on skis, and Eskimo women fishing for cod through holes in the ice. Nome City is seen in the background.
- A fairy helps a knight save a princess from an ogre, a witch and a dwarf.
- An escaped baby finds a gun and chases pursuers.
- An escaped lunatic kills a woman, strangles a railway passenger, climbs a building, and is caught by a sailor.
- A magnificently staged old-time romance, in which a real castle, with turrets, moat and drawbridge are used for settings. A beautiful love-story, magnificently produced, with characters in sixteenth century costume. The hero and heroine oppose the wishes of the stern parent, who has another and richer suitor selected for his daughter. The daughter, through many pretty and touching love scenes, proves her preference. The hero is abducted in one scene, returns in the next disguised as a wandering minstrel, serenades his inamorata, who is leaning from the window of yon tower. She, quickly descending, is enveloped by his cloak, and they hurry past the sleeping sentinel and flee through beautiful woodland scenes, stopping anon to rest her ladyship. Finally, overcome with fatigue, they seek shelter under a spreading tree. The stern father, entering the castle gates with the suitor he has chosen, to arrange the betrothal, discovers the absence of his daughter and calls for his courtiers and men with bloodhounds to start the search for the miscreant ones. The party of the irate father track the fleeing ones over hill and through valley, until finally they come upon the lovers peacefully sleeping in blissful ignorance of the approaching danger. Rudely are they awakened and torn from each other's arms, the lover hurried back the castle and ordered shot. The Baron's riflemen face the unfortunate lover, who, with bared head and bended knees awaits his doom. As two shots ring out the beautiful daughter springs forward, and the two lovers receive the two bullets. The frantic father throws himself upon the prostrate form of his beloved daughter.
- Tramps steal eggs and pelt a pursuing policeman.
- An ejected maid abandons a baby and is later rejected by the baby's adopter when she recognises a birthmark.
- A detective hides behind a bush to catch a blackmailer.
- A drunkard's mishaps taking a bottle of wine to his wife.
- A boy dreams of pranks he will play on the morrow.
- A wizard emerges from an exploding Earth and turns countries into girls.
- A chef's rival for a maid is baked in an oven and shrunk.
- "Chechawko" means newcomer. The story goes that in the 1899 days of discoveries a "chechawko" went out on the rich "Bonanza" creek, 14 miles from Dawson, and finding everything staked and claimed, asked the men working there where he could go to locate a good claim. They pointed to this great wash gravel hill, and directed him to the top. He went up and began operations. In three weeks, he had taken out $20,000 by the crudest methods possible, and then accepted $30,000 for his claim. The man that bought it took out $300,000. This view shows tram cars taking the pay dirt out of the hillside to the brow of the hill, where it is shot 500 feet down to Bonanza Creek below, and the gold washed from it. This subject also gives a swinging panorama along the entire hill, and down the great Bonanza Creek.
- A cheap watch causes a man to miss a train.
- This shows a train on the famous White Pass & Yukon Railway leaving Skagway, Alaska, with miners and their wives for the Land of the Golden Fleece.
- Located in the Willamette River, near Portland, Ore., these falls are seen and admired through the car windows of the Southern Pacific railway trains. Ours is a close view, made from one of the numerous mills that get their power from Mother Nature at this point.
- A man is rude to everyone he meets and is thrown into the river.
- An immense typical Mississippi River stern-wheeler pulling away from Dawson Wharf with all flags flying and crowded with happy people bound for their homes in the States. Including the private "pokes" (gold dust bags), the treasure carried on this trip was estimated at about six million dollars. The wharf is black with people waving and answering fond farewells. A parting in that country is strangely different from one anywhere else. Leaving behind a friend or acquaintance whose only capital may be the last hundred dollars to which you have staked him, you return in the Spring to find him with a mine worth a million, one half of which is yours. On the other hand, he may have perished in the long winter or succumbed to the temptations of a great mining camp and frittered or gambled away the prospect of an amount of money that would have satisfied you for the rest of your life. All these and other thoughts play their part in the farewells in the North. No better view can be had of this type of vessel, passing it full length close in front of the camera.
- After noting a long stretch of track that has just been cleared, we see the giant rotary with all steam on, approaching on a parallel track, and throwing a continuous stream of snow into the air. While the rotary is drawing nearer, two lively fellows engage in a snowballing and then a wrestling match. By this time, the huge fan of the rotary may be seen swiftly revolving and eating its way through the great bank of snow in front of it. Formerly a snowfall like the one shown in this scene would have delayed transcontinental traffic for a week, but in this instance, there was no delay whatever.
- Here we show dog teams, sleds, school children, miners, prospectors, sports, camp followers and loafers on McKinlet Street, Valdez. The snow has just become packed, and the men with their dog teams, and their "best girls" turn out in numbers, while those not so fortunate as to have "best girls" in that far north, take their amusement in the form of pelting each other with snowballs. Finely illustrative of one phase of life in the Northwest.
- A short swinging view made from the shore of this whirling, tumbling mass of foam and water.
- A sailor returns from the sea in time to save his wife from a squire.
- Never has there been made a scenic moving picture that will hold the attention of every one like this subject. Miles Canyon in the Upper Yukon is a box canyon that narrows the river from a quarter of a mile wide, down to 60 feet. It has a drop of 18 feet in a mile and a quarter, and a current of 16 miles an hour. The scows going through the dangerous stretch of water must be steered by large sweeps from front and back, each sweep handled by two men. Our camera was so placed as to show the front sweepers constantly in action, and at the same time to show the rushing, whirling waters striking the black frowning basalt walls and by them dashed back to the center of the current, making a veritable Whirlpool Rapids, which can be navigated in safety only by the most experienced pilots. This is without doubt one of the greatest interest sustaining subjects of natural scenery ever made.
- This tunnel is three miles long through the Cascade Mountains in the State of Washington. It is absolutely straight, and so perfect was the engineering that when the two gangs of workmen met in the heart of the mountain, there was less than an inch variation in their calculations. Our picture, made from the pilot of the engine, starts through two high banks of snow just after a ten foot snow fall had been cut away by a rotary snow-plow. Passing Wellington Station, we enter the East portal and remain in darkness until the small pin head of light indicates that we are coming nearer and nearer to the opposite portal. The light is seen shimmering on the rails and on the damp ceiling of the tunnel. Then comes a beautiful snow scene that grows and grows in size until we burst out into the open snow-covered country once more, and after passing around a double reverse curve, we come to a stop at Cascade Station, with icicles hanging from its eaves. The sharp contrast between the white snow scenes and the inpenetrable darkness in the tunnel, together with the great length of the tunnel and the time it takes to reach the opposite portal after it shows on the screen, combine to make this one of the best tunnel pictures ever made. This is a subject that will never grow stale.
- From the pilot of an engine as described in the preceding subject, two of our operators make a fine film through a three hundred foot tunnel, 14 miles north of Skagway, Alaska. As the engine approaches the tunnel around an abrupt curve, Old Saw Tooth Mountain, snow capped and towering, is seen in the background, while below can be seen the location of the terrible White Pass Trail and Dead Horse Gulch, where before the railroad was built, thousands of horses and many men perished from fatigue each year, while carrying packs of supplies to the Land of Quick Riches. Through the tunnel we dash, and out across trestles, past the two operators who made the preceding subject, and around the sheer bluffs of blasted rock, where men had to be suspended by ropes from above while making the shelf for the railroad.
- Eldorado, true to its name, is one of the richest creeks in the golden North. It has probably made more millionaires out of poor men than any one gold stream in the world. This view shows all phases of operating a claim of this description; loading in the pit the dump buckets which are hoisted to the "mad box" where the pay dirt is dumped and shovelled into the sluice boxes. The action of the water on the conglomerate mass disintegrates it, and causes the heavy particles of gold to seek the bottom of the boxes between the "riffle boards" and washes away the lighter rocks and minerals. The heavier rocks are thrown out by hand. This claim is said to net about a quarter of a million dollars annually.