Movies 1902 Page 13

Crowds enjoying the spectacle at Birmingham Athletics Club.

The scene opens showing two back yards with a fence between. In one of the yards a woman is seen washing clothes. In the other a young man and a lady...

A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.

Variety act The Everhardts perform in this silent short.

The Coronation Day parade in London, on 9 August 1902. The first of two shots taken from the same camera position for the British Mutoscope and...

The bicycle was still a novelty at the beginning of the 20th century. At the Villa Belle Rive in Cannes, the Lavanchy-Clarke family engage with it...

Footage of the Kent House Slide.

A most amusing Winter scene. Shows a large number of boys, girls, men and women on top of an incline with their sleds and toboggans. They coast down...

A parade of horses and vehicles on the Speedway, New York.

A ropey pitch and worse goalkeeping in a typical non-league football derby in Edwardian Yorkshire.

Second part in Edison’s “Martinique” trilogy. Vivid and exciting throughout. Shows great volcanic disaster, including the explosion of the...

This lively series of shots of crowds enjoying various events at a university sports day was filmed on the grounds of Queen's College Cork (from...

This short film, made by Bamforth of Holmfirth, shows a group of boys sliding in the snow.

A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.

These famous European acrobats are shown in their wonderful feats of balancing and high-class acrobatic work. This troupe commands the highest salary...

One of the most interesting pictures in the series showing how the ice is taken up from the canal by machinery and run into ice houses, each of which...

This is one of nine films in the Mitchell and Kenyon collection relating to this momentous exhibition, a key moment in Cork's early 20th century...