Movies 1900 Page 5

Taken from an automobile. This picture was taken during the fashionable driving hour, making a complete circle of the Place de la Concorde, passing...

Brazilian President Manuel Ferraz de Campos Salles visits Argentina in 1900.

A turn-of-the-last-century hand-tinted short, which features two women, Miss Lally and Miss Julyett, dancing at a ball. By the legendary French...

“The filmmaker took several different scenes shot earlier between 1896 and 1899 and double-printed two sets of images together to create a new...

Reenactment of a South African battle.

Drama by Walter R. Booth. Survival status unknown.

A performance with sound from comedian Jules Moy.

Possibly the sensation of the flight of a bird can be nearest realized by being on deck of one of the U.S. Government's fleet torpedo boats racing at...

Excursions in the mountains of a group of riders.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

"Les Fredaines de Pierrette" is the collective name of four short films of 20 meters each ("Arrivée de Pierrette et de Pierrot", "Arrivée...

Parody of an unknown melodrama of the period.

This short film, along with other experimental sound films, is thought to have been recorded for the Paris 'Exposition Universelle' of 1900.

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other. The director of this film is not credited in any contemporary catalogues...

A man and a child are washing a small dog in a tub, while a large dog is circling around them, barking.

Walter Gibbons was one of Britain's most forward-thinking film entrepreneurs, and deeply entranced by the music hall. In 1900 he launched his 'phono...

Recovering from a severe illness (likely typhoid), W.K.L. Dickson received word from London that the audience's enthusiasm for the military was...

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...

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

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

Two men lose it laughing at something in a magazine

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

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

A man exchanges shoe blacking for his friend's soap.

The magician enters upon a stage, and removing a covering from a small table, shakes it before the audience to show that there is nothing whatever...

Poor Uncle Josh is trying to get to sleep, but being constantly bedevilled by a fellow in red long underwear with horns. A short early trick editing...

This picture was taken at the historical point signified by the above title, where so many daring and venturesome miners have lost their lives in...

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

A "lady" undresses for bed.

It is worthy of note that the film can be watched in a shorter amount of time than it takes to to say the film's title.

Reenactment of a scene from the Boxer Rebellion.

A huge fly is bothering an old gentleman, who is trying to take a nap. The old gentleman, after standing the torment as long as he can, jumps up and...

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...

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

Sailors row a whaling boat in a medium-tight shot.

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