William Heise Movies
- 1898
A Street Arab
A Street Arab4.3891898HD
A preadolescent boy, dressed like a street urchin, performs acrobatic stunts for the camera.
- 1897
The First Sleigh-Ride
The First Sleigh-Ride3.61897HD
“This subject taken just after the recent first fall of snow, shows two enthusiastic horsemen indulging in a "brush" with their respective...
- 1896
Fatima's Coochee-Coochee Dance
Fatima's Coochee-Coochee Dance4.8951896HD
The dancer Fatima, well-known for her dancing shows at the World's Exhibition in 1893, performs for the camera. She opens her act by twirling around...
- 1898
Snowballing the Coasters
Snowballing the Coasters21898HD
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.
- 1897
Falls of Minnehaha
Falls of Minnehaha4.21897HD
The 'Laughing Waters' of Longfellow's 'Hiawatha.' A beautiful view of this picturesque and celebrated waterfall.
- 1895
Princess Ali
Princess Ali3.5591895HD
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...
- 1894
Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill1.71894HD
The famous army scout in an exhibition of rifle shooting. A fine picture of the principal, and beautiful smoke effects.
- 1897
Corner Madison and State Streets, Chicago
Corner Madison and State Streets, Chicago4.21897HD
The busiest corner in Chicago. Cable cars and street traffic of all descriptions. Hundreds of shoppers. Fine perspective view looking north toward...
- 1898
Hockey Match on the Ice
Hockey Match on the Ice41898HD
The skaters dart to and fro, swinging their hockeys and trying to hit the disc toward the goal.
- 1897
Bowery Waltz
Bowery Waltz3.2861897HD
A vaudeville routine: two denizens of the Bowery dance while under the influence. She's wearing a light dress with a full skirt. He wears a white...
- 1897
Pillow Fight
Pillow Fight4.4381897HD
“A comic subject, clear, bright and characteristic. Shows four girls in their night dresses, engaged in an animated pillow fight. During the...
- 1898
Turkish Dance, Ella Lola
Turkish Dance, Ella Lola5.31898HD
In this movie, dancer Ella Lola performs a Turkish variation of a "Danse Du Ventre", the oriental belly dance. In her dance she shakes, twists and...
- 1895
Death Scene
Death Scene01895HD
The sinister mesmerist Svengali hypnotizes two characters, then dies abruptly in a Trilby segment from David Henderson's Aladdin, Jr. burlesque. Lost.
- 1898
Old Glory and the Cuban Flag
Old Glory and the Cuban Flag41898HD
The stars-and-stripes and the flag of Cuba Libre flutter in the breeze, one after the other. Very dramatic. Appeals to the popular sentiment....
- 1895
Silver Dance
Silver Dance11895HD
The participants are natives of Ceylon. Their dance is very interesting being so different from Western ideas of harmonies of motion.
- 1894
Japanese Dancers
Japanese Dancers41894HD
Three sisters dance the Mikado in this very early film from the Edison company.
- 1898
Sea Waves
Sea Waves3.31898HD
"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...
- 1898
The Ball Game
The Ball Game3.41898HD
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...
- 1897
Charity Ball
Charity Ball31897HD
A Victorian couple dancing.
- 1897
Fisherman's Luck
Fisherman's Luck3.21897HD
"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...