Title

Date

Format

Description

Cost to transfer

America's Cup                       

1930, 1934   

B&W

Sound

400 ft.

Newsreel

From titles on film:

1930: PICK CUP DEFENDER! Newport, RI - Fastest yacht in US! Enterprise, sailed by Harold S. Vanderbilt, named to race Shamrock V. Sir Tommie's challenger! Fifth of Lipton's "Shamrocks" has first trials with new racing rig. (more)

$225

Block Island Sword-fishing

1926

B&W

Silent

300 ft.

Newsreel

Close-up of swordfish's head; a few fishing people looking at a swordfish on the dock - fishing village in background; cutting a swordfish & packing it in a barrel; fishing boat, swordfish hanging from hoist; etc.

$215

Church With an Overshot Wheel 

1919

B&W

Silent

750 ft.

RI-made feature film based on O. Henry story.

Rita Murphy as Aglaia; Ethel Flemming as Rose Chester; William Corbett as Josiah Rankin; Mr. Haywood as Rev. Banbridge.

$275

Cuba              

(1919)

B&W

Silent

1800 ft.

Possible Travelogue.

$450

Eclipse - Fables Intro.

Eclipse Ad

Circa 1954   

1954

B&W

Sound

400 ft.

B&W

Sound

50 ft.

Advertisement for Eclipse-sponsored program.

Advertisement, Eclipse was a coffee or chocolate syrup, to be used in milk, for example.  Ad shows girl preparing a glass of milk.    

Total for both films:

$240

Long Count Election, 1956, the

1973

B&W

Sound

550 ft.

The Rhode Island Historical Society presents retrospect: an anthology of filmed events in the history of RI selected from the film archive of the RIHS.

$250

Minister, the  

Circa 1916

B&W

Silent

1600 ft.

RI-made feature. Based on Oliver Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, interpreted by Mary Murillo.  

$420

Novelty Park Club Marathon           

1929   

B&W

Silent

100 ft.)

Home movie, 3rd annual novelty park club marathon, March 30, 1929. Anthony Donahue, chairman, welcomes official starter Senator William H. Vanderbilt & Judges. Also shows the race.

$190

Paper Prints (Library of Congress)

1900-1905

B&W

Silent

500 ft.

The Paper Prints represent the earliest films made in Rhode Island in the RIHS collection.

Contents:

Policemen drill unit, residential streets. (American Mutoscope & Biograph co.)

Fire Dept., Fall River, MA. (1903, American Mutoscope & Biograph co.)

Gun drill by naval cadets at Newport, RI Naval Training School. (1900, Edison)

Gymnasium exercises & drill at Newport, RI Naval Trailing School. (1900, Edison)

Naval sham battle at Newport. (1900, Edison,)

Noon hour, Hope Webbing Co. employees on sidewalk, walking, horsing around. (1903, American Mutoscope & Biograph co.)

Panoramic view of Newport; boat & sailors.(1900, Edison)

Pawtucket Fire Dept. wagons, spectators. (1903, Biograph)

Providence Light Artillery, parade. (1903 American Mutoscope & Biograph co.)

Rhode Island Light Artillery, mounted, open field, running around, cannon fired. (1904,

American Mutoscope & Biograph co.)

$220

Pawtucket Cotton Festival

1946

B&W

Sound

800 ft.

Documentary, "Pawtucket's Sesqui-Centennial Cotton Celebration - 150 Years of Progress" 

$290

Rhode Island: Just a Little Bit of All Outdoors

Construction & Opening of Mt. Hope Toll Bridge

Circa 1930

1929

B&W

Silent

400 ft.

B&W

Silent

425 ft.

Promotional film, [ca. 1930]

Home movie

Total for both films:

$140

Shots Around Providence, 1933   

Shots Around Providence, 1939   

1933

1939

B&W

Silent

300 ft.

Color

Silent

200 ft.

Home movies

Total for both films

$230

Unhooking the Hookworm

Circa 1920-1924

B&W

Silent

350 ft.

A documentary on scientific methods of combating hookworm.

$200

Why Providence

1921

B&W

Silent

350 ft. 

Promotional film made by Coronet Films, directed by Harry C. Burnham and sponsored by Providence Town Criers. Why not move your business to Providence?

$205