Movies 1900 Page 11

Single shot of a column of Gordon Highlanders marching out of their camp at Ladysmith to meet General Buller's relief column.

A child borrows his grandmother's magnifying glass to look at a newspaper ad for Bovril, at a watch, and then at a bird. The child shows grandma what...

Visit of President Émile Loubet and his entourage. Lumière Catalogue #1153.

Ambulances and British troops crossing the Tugela River over the pontoon bridge near Trichardt's Drift, during the British retreat from Spion Kop in...

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

A decapitated cook wreaks havoc on the restaurant proprietor.

Reenactment of a South African battle.

The Prince of Wales reviews Paget's Horse, with black dog following.

Consisting of a single shot, Spiders on a Web is one of the earliest British examples of close-up natural history photography. Made by one of the...

In this picture some very remarkable effects are obtained by the reversal of the motion of the negative. A man comes home, somewhat under the...

An elderly gentleman in a silk hat sits on a stool in front of a store on the main street of town. He has a telescope that focuses on the ankle of a...

While our photographers were crossing the Atlantic Ocean a most wonderful and sensational picture was secured, showing a storm at sea. The picture...

Reenactment of a scene from the Boxer Rebellion.

A man takes off his clothes in preparation for bed, only for new clothes to spontaneously generate, leading to comical consternation.

"The Bath" is a flip book remake of After the Ball (Après le Bal) made in the late 1800s.

Two cooks fight, one pushing the other into a barrel and pouring a saucepan of liquid over his head. 10 second fragment available in flipbook format,...

A burlesque on the work of highwaymen in Chicago. An elderly gentleman is sandbagged and robbed by a thug, who inadvertently leaves some money on the...

A very lifelike picture of the famous New York politician and Tammany Hall boss. This picture was taken on Sunday morning [sic] as he was leaving the...

A prince gets the help of a fairy to aid in his conflict with a wizard.

The scene opens by showing the village girls driving home a herd of cows, and shows the native peasantry of Switzerland returning from their daily...

This film title is almost, though not quite, false advertising. There's certainly a gale, and a wrecked ship, but the one didn't cause the other....

A legless beggar with a sign around his neck saying "cripple" pushes himself slowly and laboriously on a trolley along the pavement, soliciting alms...

Throngs of men in top hats walk past the camera.

This building and machinery supplied the electric power and electric light for the entire city of Galveston, including the car system. The building,...

This picture opens with the young cadets climbing the rigging and going through the sail drill on board the famous historic ship "Constellation."...

At the first news of the disast by cyclone and tidal wave that devastated Galveston on Saturday, September 8th, 1900, we equipped a party of...

Showing the Whilrpool Rapids as they are seen from the front of a car on the Great Gorge Road.

Two chaps, a Gramophone, and a dog called Nipper. What could possibly go wrong?

A dispatch rider gets through a Boer ambush.

A view of Dam Square and the Damrak. To the right the 'Beurs van Zocher', the commodity exchange building of architect J.D. Zocher.

Back in Blighty - after fighting in the Boer War, these volunteer soldiers are heading home to London and Middlesex

Cavalry cross the river in enormous number. Occasionally a horse stops to take a drink, and then walks on.

School is over for the day. A stationary camera is trained on the door of the high school at the top of a few stairs. A man and small boy emerge,...

Yet another factory gate exit film from Mitchell and Kenyon.

A highland fling

In an arena, a Landes race scene with cows.

Shot just a few days after the relief of Mafeking, this film captures the progress of British military personnel across the Vaal River in South...

At the turn of the 20th century, the streets of Manila are filled with horse-drawn carriages, people in white European dresses, and wedding parties...

A magician dressed as Mephistopheles conjures up a variety of people and objects in this short film.