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- Captivating early film by the pioneer of Welsh cinema. Rare footage of RMS Munster docking at Anglesey, carrying mail collected at Dublin. Made by Wales' filmmaking pioneer Arthur Cheetham, the film consists of a single shot from a stationary camera patiently awaiting the steamer's arrival. Watching her draw inexorably closer we can still sense the shiver-down-the-back excitement of early film viewers seeing real-life movement reproduced on screen.
- H.R.H., Prince Edward of York, executing the manual of arms, attended by Prince Albert, and Princess Victoria, of York.
- Princes Edward and Albert of York and Princess Victoria of York, taking photographs with a tripod camera.
- Everybody who has heard or read of Colorado knows about this wonderful piece of railroad. Many years ago there was a fight between the Denver & Rio Grande and the Santa Fe roads for possession of this narrow canyon, at that time believed to be the only way through the front range of mountains toward Leadville and the golden West. The Santa Fe people finally withdrew because their engineers had told them it would be an absolute impossibility to build a road up that narrow gorge where the Arkansas river rushed like a mill race between two walls of rock 2,000 feet high. In one place there was a deep pool almost in the vortex of the stream where piers or bridges could never rest on solid foundation. The Rio Grande people found the place later, but their engineers solved the problem in the most singular manner ever heard of. A bridge was built and anchored to the rock on one side. Then two great steel trusses were thrown across the canyon, and from these the outside end of the bridge was swung by means of rods from above. For many years, even now, this bridge is pointed out as the greatest single example of the skill of American engineers in solving apparently impossible problems. Nearly or quite four miles of track are displayed in this picture, and that includes not only the best portion of the Royal Gorge, but the wonderful hanging bridge as well. At this point the engine from which the picture was taken was slowed down a trifle, and this keeps this interesting portion of the picture on the screen longer than otherwise.
- Scenes of the coronation ceremonies of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.
- Arrival of Prince Henry of Prussia aboard the "Kronprinz Wilhelm" in New York Bay. Fort Wadsworth gives the first salute of twenty-one guns.
- A scene of barbaric splendor; Indian Princes clothed in gold and precious jewels, on massive elephants, decked from head to foot in draperies of Oriental beauty. One of the most spectacular films ever made, the most gorgeous spectacle the world has ever known.
- Showing a freight train on the Denver & Rio Grande railway, passing through the Royal Gorge and over the swinging bridge.
- The Northwest Mounted Police firing a royal salute on water front, Dawson City, in honor of the arrival of Lord and Lady Minto. Taken during the Gubernatorial visit to the great gold mines of the Klondike.