Movies 1900 Page 5

Here we have a mixed company of Gordon Highlanders, Irish Fusilliers and English Lancers, as a group of prisoners taken to the rear by a troop of...

White’s camera offers several 360-degree pans of views of the fairground, then amazes by tilting up and down the Eiffel Tower, and concludes with a...

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

The scene is a railroad track on the side of a steep mountain, with a tunnel in the background, toward which a train is running at a high rate of...

An American Mutscope & Biograph production.

Shows a party of English people in their chairs. This is the only safe way of getting about in Canton, as the streets are indescribably filthy.

Vaudeville comedians Foottit and Chocolat hop and dance around and occasionally fight.

Two silent films capture a panoramic view of the 'Rue de l'Avenir', an electric powered moving walkway displayed at the Exposition Universelle in...

Sherlock Holmes enters his drawing room to find it being burgled, but on confronting the villain is surprised when the latter disappears.

This 10 second fragment is available in flipbook format, otherwise lost.

An old spinster receives an unexpected Valentine's letter.

A wounded soldier dreams of his mother whose framed miniature deflects a bullet from his heart.

A man misses his train due to his clothes turning into other types of clothes.

Chinese passengers make their way down the wharf. Two chair bearers are soliciting fares, but without any success.

The single camera position is from the top of a building identified as the Trocadero Palace; The camera is pointed toward the Eiffel Tower. The film...

Drama by Walter R. Booth. Survival status unknown.

Two delinquent clerks are seated in a broker's office engaged in a game of cards. The boss suddenly appears walking through the corridor. The cards...

An early variety performance with synchronised gramophone sound. Thought to be an early version of The Blind Boy (1917).

Christine Kerf as the Greek muse Terpsichore, in 1900.

Paris seen from a boat, in this Lumière short film.

A man attempts to shave with a blunt razor.

Filmed off the coast of Rhode Island, this Edison short takes place on the U.S. torpedo boat Morris as we see some men loading up a torpedo that is...

A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.

A crew of railroad workmen are busy along the tracks of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. When the Black Diamond Express appears in the distance, they...

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...

An advertisement made for Dewar's whisky brand.

In the distance is seen a number of grey objects rapidly approaching, which, upon drawing closer, are recognized as a company of Boer cavalry. As...

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...

The stubborn resistance of the Boers is shown by the activity and persistency with which they fire the two large field pieces immediately in the...

Scenes on an ostrich farm, filmed in Natal during the Boer War.

Here is another view on the Bund, with The Garden on the left, with its high arched conservatory. As in the former scene, the peculiar wheelbarrows...

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

A single shot of a fleet of warships at sea, with a sunset sky superimposed from another sequence to complete the effect.

Scene from the second act of The Prince of Wales Theatre production.

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

Photographed February-March, 1898 in Canton, China

A combination of the picture entitled "The Ballet of the Ghosts," and a surf scene; the resulting effect being that the ghostly figures rise up out...

Muskoka Lake District, Canada. Beautiful picture, showing a man casting a fly, getting a strike, and landing the trout.