Movies 1903 Page 17

The film opens with a man standing at the brow of a hill looking off to his left as a black man pushing a cart passes behind him in the other...

American Mutoscope & Biograph made a whole series of these films covering everything from the mail being collected from post boxes to being delivered...

Women natives of the Danish West Indies are coaling ship with baskets of coal which they carry on their heads. They walk up a long gang plank and...

Firefighter exercises.

The steamscow passes a pinnace headed in the other direction, then steams on past the huge paddlewheeler.

Inside of a post office.

Three goddesses, Venus, Juno and Minerva each of whom claims to be the most beautiful, call a shepherd "Paris" and ask him to decide the question and...

A lady dances the tango.

It shows a postman ascending a flight of half-dozen stairs to the front door of a house and ringing its bell then delivering mail to the person who...

Film taken from a boat heading down the Hudson is shown at varying speeds, often giving a sense of rapid transit.

Close-up of a hand doing magic tricks with coins. Directed by Alf Collins.

From left to right, we see the heads of several well-known people performed by actor Henri Plessis.

This short film from the Corrick Collection by the Corrick Family Entertainers features documentary footage taken in Singapore.

Another early short presenting the workings of the Postal Service.

At the end of each season, at popular Atlantic City, New Jersey, a floral parade takes place, composed wholly of children. Thousands of tots are seen...

The film opens on a dressing room set with a mirror, dressing table, and chair center stage and a folded dressing screen on the left. A smiling,...

Another in a series of films made for the USPO in 1903, this short shows a small coach pulling up outside a rural post office. A man climbs out of...

Two Japanese ladies dance while one plays a traditional instrument.