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B&W
A variety of shots focusing on cultures of previous centuries. Opens with a game of Tennis between a young girl and a man, dressed in Victorian fashion. A garden party taking place with women dressed in corsets and decorative hats. Teddy Roosevelt and his company ‘The Rough Riders’ on horse-back going on a journey. Early footage from around the 1890s featuring personalities like the inventor, Alexander Graham Bell, President Teddy Roosevelt or Sarah Bernhadt.