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Richard William Pearse (3 December 1877 – 29 July 1953) was a New Zealand farmer and inventor who performed pioneering aviation experiments. Witnesses interviewed many years afterwards describe observing Pearse flying and landing a powered heavier-than-air machine on 31 March 1903, nine months before the Wright brothers flew.
Gaston Méliès, Georges' brother, opens a branch of Star Film in New York to defend its production's copyrights. Adolph Zukor and Marcus Loew partner with Mitchell Mark to expand his chain of movie theaters. William N. Selig's war film A Soldier's Dream is released. The film shows soldiers playing cards and music around a campfire.
In the history of motion pictures in the United States, many films have been set in New York City, or a fictionalized version thereof. The following is a list of films and documentaries set in New York, however the list includes a number of films which only have a tenuous connection to the city. The list is sorted by the year the film was released.
New York Harbor Police Boat Patrol Capturing Pirates: Nicholas Nickleby: Alf Collins: William Carrington: Old Irish Cabin: On the Bow River Horse Ranch at Cochrane, North West Territory: Only a Soldier Boy: Our New Cook: Over the Garden Wall: Panorama of the Lakes of Killarney from Hotel: Passengers Embarking from S.S. Augusta Victoria, at Beyrouth
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Kit Carson is one of the earliest Western films, [3] being released by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in October 1903. (According to silentera.com, portions may have been released the month before. [4]) Part of the footage was reused in The Pioneers, another Western short also released by Biograph in October 1903.