William Heise Movies

From Edison films catalog: A long line of horses, mules and ponies are led, driven and ridden into the yards, where they are sold and distributed.

The Leigh Sisters perform a risqué Trilby-inspired dance with an umbrella. Scene from David Henderson's Aladdin, Jr. burlesque. Lost.

The children come sliding down the hill on their sleds, and run the gauntlet of volleys of snowballs thrown by boys on both sides of the street.

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...

Ten horse-drawn pieces of equipment of the Buffalo Fire Department pass by a stationary camera that looks down a broad avenue as they come toward...

Two gamecocks are fighting inside a wire cage, while two spectators look on in the background. The two men agree to make a bet on the outcome. One of...

The famous show makes a parade.

The busiest corner in Chicago. Cable cars and street traffic of all descriptions. Hundreds of shoppers. Fine perspective view looking north toward...

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

A preadolescent boy, dressed like a street urchin, performs acrobatic stunts for the camera.

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

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...

The famous show makes a parade.

A young boy dances on a table top.

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

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

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

"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...