Atlantic City Fire Department (1897)

This picture is very notable from the fact that at the end of the scene after the runby of various engines and hose wagons an engine was forced out of its course into the Biograph camera smashing it to bits The negative was saved out of the wreck and presents a remarkable photographic illusion inasmuch as one who looks at it gets the effect at the end of the picture of a fire engine at full tilt dashing directly toward him