William Heise Movies

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...

At the Armour & Co. Chicago yard. Two railroad tracks dominate the center and right half of the frame as we look down about 40 meters where an...

“A file of Spanish soldiers line up the Cubans against a blank wall and fire a volley. The flash of rifles and drifting smoke make a very...

Experimental film that follows up on the results of "Monkeyshines, No. 1". Once again, an Edison company worker moves around in front of the motion...

This picture was taken at one of the curves on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, along the beautiful Susquehanna River. The train is seen rapidly...

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...

A woman in a white gown performs a skirt dance, using her arms to produce circles and other patterns within the folds of her costume. Her legs and...

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

Imagine ten pickaninnies turned loose and on mischief bent. Farmer catches one leaving but Nine. Nine Happy Snowballs on a Swing elate. One gets...

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

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:...

"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...

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

The American flag waving in the wind.

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

The 'Laughing Waters' of Longfellow's 'Hiawatha.' A beautiful view of this picturesque and celebrated waterfall.

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...

Views of Buffalo Bills Wild West Show.

"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...