Movies 1901 Page 7

Original President McKinley Inauguration Footage from 1901.

In this picture we present a wonderful and life-like likeness of President McKinley.

Leicester Tigers face Plymouth in this early filmed rugby match, which took place 26 October 1901, at Leicester's Welford Road home. As is customary...

The film shows a parade down Fifth Avenue, New York. In the foreground many children, both black and white, can be seen following alongside the...

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Released in 1901

It shows a garden wall in the background. Two lovers appear and lean over the garden gate where the moon throws a shadow upon the ground. The young...

Time-lapse photography showing the one month-long demolition of the Star Theatre in New York.

A conjuror appears to demonstrate a lady with three heads.

An old maid is walking about the studio while the photographer is getting his camera ready. She first looks at a hanger, which immediately falls from...

A satire on the way that audiences unaccustomed to the cinema didn't know how to react to the moving images on a screen - in this film, an...

Troops play up for the camera in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle.

Footage of Edward VII in the funeral procession of his mother, Queen Victoria.

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

We present here a series of interesting pictures and show a number of scenes just as witnessed by a visitor to the Great Forepaugh and Sells Bros....

Released in 1901

Released in 1901.

James J. Jeffries throwing the medicine ball. An absolutely perfect picture of the champion heavyweight of the world.

On 28 January 1901 the great musician Giuseppe Verdi died from the consequences of a stroke that had struck him six days earlier. These very rare...

The subject is a group of women bathing in a public swimming pool. The camera was placed on the edge of the pool and the full extent of the film...

The cook has trouble lighting the stove, so she adds kerosene, with explosive results. No primary source credits a director for this film.

A gilded saloon, with a fancy bar, forms the background. A nobby bartender with white coat and apron is dispensing drinks to customers. Behind him...

In front of one of the largest newspaper offices is a hot air shaft through which immense volumes of air are forced by a blower. Ladies in crossing...

In the background is a row of three-masted sailing ships, at anchor, their sales furled. In the foreground, a simple pier that's more like a yardarm...

Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry.

Shows a tramp asleep. Two mischievous boys appear on roller skates. One removes his skates and they strap them to the feet of "Weary Willie." They...

President McKinley Inauguration

An artist draws the head of a pretty girl, takes the drawing off the paper and places it on a small table, turning the image into the head of a real...

Actuality film documenting the funeral of Queen Victoria in February 1901. The footage captures the solemn processions and ceremonies that marked the...

This subject is in three scenes, showing beautiful dissolving effects. Scene 3. The Man Behind that Teacup shows Admiral Sampson the centre of...

A rare glimpse of early Edwardian Manchester when the horse-drawn tram still reigned supreme.

Northern Union footage.

A companion picture to No. 1964 ('Cutting Sugar Cane' (1901) (q.v.)), and equally interesting. Honolulu, Hawaii.

This scene was taken shortly after the completion of the railroad in 1899. The impression received by the audience is that of riding on the pilot of...

One of the principal features at the Pan-American Exposition is the Alaskan or Esquimaux Village. In this most interesting exhibit...

The Waif and the Wizard features the same young man who appeared in Undressing Extraordinary (and who might be early filmmaker Walter Booth). It's...

The champion lady boxers of the world. Shows two female pugilists who are really clever. They engage in a hot one-round sparring bout. A park, with...

Thousands of people got together on Easter Monday for the traditional egg rolling.

Evocative film of the passengers and crew of a ship docked at Liverpool.