Movies 1903 Page 6

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.

As scene as pleasing as incomprehensible. A juggler summons two chairs, which come to the stage jumping and twirling around. Across the back of these...

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...

Historical legend composed of five Scenes. 1. William Tell's heroism. 2. The Plot. 3. The Apple. 4. Death of Gessler. 5. The Swiss cheer their...

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.

In a public place in Constantinople at the corner of a bazaar, the executioner is seated upon a stone and is resting from his daily labors while...

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.

The film features, in a double role, Henri Plessis, a famous and established performer in the French entertainment world. The film's attraction for...

A porter is endeavoring to clean the windows of a store, when a rather stout lady begins to shake rugs from a window higher up. The porter is annoyed...

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...

London street scenes, showing varieties of horse-drawn traffic. Views of Parliament Square, Charing Cross, Pall Mall, the Royal Exchange and others.

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

Single shot panning across a landscape. Edison films, 1903.

Taken from the front end of a locomotive following an express train at high speed around the high curves of the Ninth Avenue Elevated, from the 104th...

This shows an acrobatic team performing on a revolving flying ring unit suspended between the towers at Luna Park.

Panorama of Blackwell's Island

A thief jumps a fence and removes the shutter from a house. He enters, but a lad who's witnessed the crime runs off to hail the coppers. The first...

The film shows a post office worker inserting mail into pigeon holes.

Six scenes: A child knocks clothes into fire; alarm at station; engines emerge; engines rush down street; arrival; fireman breaks through wall and...

It's a very windy day, and the pedestrians passing by the Flatiron Building are having considerable difficulty in keeping their hats from flying off.

The mistress of a country home is going about inspecting the work done by her servant, when she discovers dust on the railing surrounding the porch,...

Kissing couple interrupted by the lady's angry father.

A very exciting contest between two well known Metropolitan wrestlers. It is full of fast work and scientific wrestling.

Princess Marie (1865-1909), born Princess of Orléans, great granddaughter of the French King Ludvig-Filip (1773-1850), who was king of France...

A pretty domestic scene showing the proud father, with the assistance of the nurse and doctor, tying the little one in a towel and weighing it with a...

A negro woman is washing her three-year-old baby in a tub of water. The child seems to enjoy it until he gets some soapsuds in his eyes, when he...

Looking for evidence that her husband may have been unfaithful, a woman is in a hotel, accompanied by a witness, and they are peeking through the...

Men on the streetcar offer their seats to pretty women, but not to an ugly woman.

This is a funny one. A clown first enters with an apparently docile donkey. A colored man follows and is assisted by the clown to mount on the...

A magnificent picture of this boat making a run and starting the water from a least a dozen nozzles at once...

A fine panoramic view of this busy market on a Friday morning. Immense throngs of people are passing along the stands and making their purchases of...

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...