Movies 1903 Page 7

A child murderess is led to her execution.

A 8-chapter ("tableaux") short film that tells the story of a gambler who ends his life on the guillotine.

With godly entrapments, Zeus appears on the horizon, engages Hermes as an audience, and tries to throw some thunderbolts. They fizzle. Hephaestus...

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...

A sentinel is surprised by some bears and climbs up onto his sentry box in order to hide himself. He takes off his uniform and throws it at the bear,...

"Cholly" wishes to call on his best girl and sends her a large bouquet. To find out if the girl really loves him, he sends a note with the messenger...

A gentleman is here shown partaking of a little lunch of bread and cheese, and occasionally is seen to glance at his morning paper through a reading...

America's Cup Races.

Here, on Grand Trunk's main line between Canada and the US, one of Biograph's early production crews rode the pilot of a locomotive from Sarnia,...

The German Emperor Wilhelm II is a guest minor in Denmark. Both personal and political reasons, the crown does not want to maintain special ties with...

Boys play a rough game of leap frog.

Over a hundred Edwardian athletes gather for a gruelling walking race.

A delightful picture full of typical interest. Sicilian women and children are washing in a brook. (Taken on the winter cruise of the S. S. "Auguste...

Shows a large open barge loaded with people of every nationality, disembarking at Ellis Island, N. Y. A most interesting and typical scene.

This lost film from Bengali filmmaker Hiralal Sen is sometimes considered the first feature-length film in Indian history. It recorded a full...

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

Girl dreams of Dick Whittington, Robinson Crusoe, Forty Thieves, Aladdin, Cinderella, Bluebeard, and Red Riding Hood.

The ride known as Shoot the Chutes was first introduced in 1895 by inventor Captain Paul Boyton at Sea Lion Park, the first enclosed outdoor...

About 20 residents of Pawtucket, R.I., line one side of a street in view of a stationary camera.

Taken at St. John's Home, Coney Island. A large number of boys are bathing in the surf. At a signal the boys leave the water and walk toward the...

Photographed from a one-camera position, as if in the audience, there are four tumblers performing for a crowd of customers in the midway of an...

Firefighter exercises.

Film showing the Viceregal party entering Delhi on lavishly decorated elephants, as part of the Coronation durbar of 1903.

Photographed from a single camera position above the heads of the crowds watching a parade, the film shows several different chapters of the...

The tops of some buildings are visible in the background. The camera was elevated several stories above the ground. In the immediate foreground,...

This film, one in a seemingly endless series of films made by American Mutoscope & Biograph for the United States Post Office, stands out by virtue...

Yet another in a vast series of films made by American Mutoscope & Biograph for the United States Postal Service which demonstrated all aspects of...

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

Shows a number of boys bathing in a fountain on the East Side. While they are at the height of their amusement, which consists of splashing the...

Several balloons in the sky above New York.

In September 1903 the ferry line between Gedser in Denmark and Warnemünde in Germany was opened. The images are from the opening of the route which...