Movies 1903 Page 3

Male letter carriers of the U.S. Post Office are the subject of this series on the Postal Department. The camera was placed to show a large number of...

A prestidigitator, one of the best, is about to perform a number of illusions and brings to his aid a pack of playing cards. He selects the King of...

On september 28th, 1903, the Urban Mountaineering Expedition, headed by Frank Ormiston-Smith, left Zermatt to attempt the conquest of the Matterhorn....

Staging of a song by Miguel F. López.

A woman being fitted for shoes exposes her ankle to the shoe clerk, who is intrigued. He kisses her, but her chaperone hits him with her umbrella.

A study in moods. A handsome girl is plucking the petals of a daisy, and repeating the well-known doggerel. The first daisy tells her that her lover...

A hapless man tries to get undressed only to find himself magically layered in even more clothes. There is no credited director for this film. Modern...

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

One of the first Swedish sound films, the audio has been lost though.

A juggler enters upon the scene, picks up a skull, throws it into the air, catches it in his hands, where it is transformed into a handkerchief. The...

Two men in a cave perform magic.

An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx.

A simple scene of two rather flamboyantly-dressed Edwardian children attempting to feed a spoonful of medicine to a sick kitten. The film is...

A group of carriers leaving a building.

A man and a woman talk beside a street near a corner where a cop stands. Just as a horse-drawn cart rounds the corner, the man backs off the sidewalk...

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.

Two impish clowns construct a magic lantern. They prop it up at an angle, and use it to project pictures onto a wall. When the picture show ends,...

A filmed record of a fan dancer performing a dance using two white sheets suspended from poles which she frantically twirls around herself to create...

Stately scenes in India, likely filmed during the 1903 Delhi Durbar.

Alphonse and Gaston are in a Western saloon and are forced to dance by a cowboy, who urges them on by shooting at their feet.

The USS Indiana stages a rescue operation of a crewman that's fallen overboard.

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

In this picture a fine idea of the jockeying and start is given, showing Shamrock III. very close, the sailors running back and forth as she passes...

The best and most characteristic picture of the President ever made. The camera is close by so that every feature shows out sharp and distinct. The...

A diner revolves the table and eats his neighbour's lunch.

Two opium smokers in a bunk bed yank on each other's queues until the bunk crashes, sending them rolling about on the floor.

Entry in a series about the United States Postal Service.

This film shows a mechanical ride in an amusement park, designed to allow customers to ride down an undulating incline astride wooden horses. Several...

In this short film, a white piece of wall bisects the screen; There are two different rooms on either side of the dividing line, but one hilarious...

Amusing cake walk of three men and two women (colored) in costume, showing the usual antics that occur in affairs of this kind.

An engaged couple, dressed in white, meet each other at a train station. When the train arrives, they board, and later they enjoy the sights from...

A blind beggar sees a coin is false and hits the donor with his wooden leg.

Showing two typical concert hall knock-about teams in a very poor performance. It ends up in their being egged by the audience.

Edison summary: An up-to-date young lady, dressed in a neat white flannel bloomer suit, goes through her morning exercises of punching the bag,...

We have just received from our operators accompanying President Roosevelt on his great tour of the Pacific Coast, a splendid series of films covering...

The fakir with his trick monkey is seated on the pavement in a street in Cairo. He plays a tom-tom, while the monkey dances the couchee-couchee. The...

A young man is courting his lady fair with the handicap of a toy poodle dog between them. The girl seems to prefer the dog, and when the young man is...