William Heise Movies

The sinister mesmerist Svengali hypnotizes a group of people and compels them to perform various humorous acts in a Trilby segment from David...

“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...

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...

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...

Late 1800s cigarette advertisement produced by Thomas Edison Manufacturing.

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

One of the pictures to be seen in the machine, for example, was that of a blacksmith shop in which two men were working, one shoeing a horse, the...

A Victorian couple dancing.

1897 version of Annabelle Moore performing a serpentine dance.

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...

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

Three sisters dance the Mikado in this very early film from the Edison company.

The famous army scout in an exhibition of rifle shooting. A fine picture of the principal, and beautiful smoke effects.

A young boy dances on a table top.

"Stable door opens and ambulance dashes out into the street. Policeman holds back a furniture van till ambulance passes by."

A lady watering the garden with a hose, a mischievous boy stops the flow of water until she looks for the cause, when he permits the water to flow,...

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

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

The sinister mesmerist Svengali hypnotizes two characters, then dies abruptly in a Trilby segment from David Henderson's Aladdin, Jr. burlesque. Lost.