Movies 1903 Page 5

Tramps stick a hot poker in a barrel labelled beer but containing gunpowder.

In a room filled with jugglers' properties of enormous size a prestidigitateur dressed in eccentric costume enters with his assistant. The servant,...

A farmer calls on a juggler to see a few of his best tricks. The juggler has brought a bouquet of flowers, from which he takes out a charming and...

Two comic characters, Jack Jags and Dum Dum, perform slapstick comedy on stage.

Two guards bring a sorcerer into the hall of a palace of the time of the Middle Ages. The king who follows them orders the sorcerer to be chained and...

A newly married couple who are on their honeymoon have something else to do than to admire nature. A tunnel comes and their conversation gets very...

The German legend of a scholar's unholy pact with the Devil would have been very familiar to most moviegoers (at least European ones), so Georges...

“These views [cf. No. 349 to 353] were taken at the New Circus in Paris and represent the various movements of the Cake-Walk executed by a troop...

An elderly woman is determined to board an omnibus that does not want to stop for her.

A witch curses a town's well.

Pedestrians, horse carts wagons and electric tram cross large open cross roads near Boar Lane, Leeds, Yorkshire.

First film in the series, showing a pretty girl exercising with chest weights.

To fill their jars with water, a group of women gathered around the well. At one point comes Samaria, a woman known for her bad temper. Jesus appears...

Solo from 'La sylphide' (1836), ballet by August Bournonville. Performed by Ellen Price (1878-1968), soloist from 1903. Ellen Price's dancing in Hans...

A box of valued jewels is placed inside the tomb of Delphi. A thief breaks into the tomb and steals it, but soon the ghost of Delphi appears and puts...

Shows ceremonies and Mayor Low accepting the new bridge in behalf of Greater New York.

A stationary camera looks on as two dapper gents play a game of chess. One drinks and smokes, and when he looks away, his opponent moves two pieces....

Siegmund Lubin's 1903 film survives and is the only vestige of Lubin's myriad attempts at coordinating sound and film extant today. With words by...

It seems Edison made a ton of these panorama films back in '03. They probably rented a boat for a couple of days, packed sandwiches and beer and...

Shot at an unidentified location in New York City, the film shows several pieces of horse-drawn fire vehicles in motion: two hook-and-ladders; two...

A couple of guys sort letters into pigeon-holes, another empties sacks of post and stamps the letters before passing them to a portly chap who is...

A number of boys are engaged in a tub race. They are lined up in a row, and the fun begins from the start. Some of the tubs upset and give the boys a...

Mary Jane tries to light the oven. When she's unsuccessful, she plays around, getting black boot polish on her face. She mugs before a mirror. Then,...

"An animated game of craps is proceeding on the levee, a crowd of young darkies [sic] being engaged in the engrossing pursuit of '7 come 11.'...

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

Scenes from a series filmed for Charles Urban by mountain expert Frank Ormiston-Smith, including The Battle of the Snow, Ski Jumping in the Alps, and...

A man and his wife are seated at a table in their happy New Jersey home. A huge mosquito appears and buzzes about their heads. The man seizes a broom...

Seeing New York by Yacht.

Buster Brown plays a practical joke on his mother, persuading her to to put her hands into a pan of lobsters, then puts a bunch of them in his...

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,...

Showing six black French poodle pups jumping over a plank to get at their dinner and then eating voraciously.

The "Patrol" is seen chasing a row-boat containing river pirates. The pirates are pulling at the oars with all their strength, but a few shots from...

The Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show introduces rough riders from all the world.

In certain sections of New York City large numbers of Jewish and Italian push-cart vendors congregate so closely along the sidewalks that they...

Elephant parade organized by Lord Curzon.

A Postman Picking up Mail

An Irishman pretends to die in a fight and revives at the wake.

Short scientific documentary, part of "The Unseen World" series.