Movies 1903 Page 7

Showing hundreds of boys, girls and adults on skis descending a steep snow-covered bank.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A re-telling of the classic tale of Faust in all of two minutes by French filmmaker Alice Guy.

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....

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

Boys play a rough game of leap frog.

"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...

Departure of the steamer from Interlaken, and giving throughout its entire length, a film picture of exceptional beauty. The stereoscopic effect is...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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

A group of Jewish men in Ottoman Jerusalem perform a dance.

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...

Seeing New York by Yacht.

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

A beautiful panoramic view of lower New York from Barclay Street to Battery Park, showing a beautiful stereoscopic effect of the sky-scrapers in the...

Elks champions Cake-Walk.

“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...

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

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,...

Panorama of Blackwell's Island

A fine picture of the celebrated "White Wings" or street-cleaning department of one district of Greater New York, showing over 350 men in line, and...

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

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

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

Filmed on a mountain railway from Caux to Rochers de Naye, Switzerland. Originally filmed in 68mm. The film was advertised as being available in...

This is a dandy, but is only one of the many performances of Mr. Walter Stanton, a natural born comedian. You see a little Bantam Rooster pitted...

A policeman confronts a group of boys who have ignored a 'No Bathing Allowed' sign.

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...

A small boy is smoking his first cigarette in the door-yard of a cottage. Fearing detection, he jumps into a barrel. His parents see the smoke rising...

Shows an old house in the background with one window with the shutters closed. A bill poster comes along and puts up a poster advertising a burlesque...

It is to laugh. Just see this picture and split your sides with laughter. A large head of enormous proportions faces the audience, and makes grimaces...

Peter Elfelt filming on a boat sailing in to harbor.

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

A remarkable exhibition by Gus Keller, novelty bag puncher of the New Polo Athletic Association. In seven scenes with dissolving effects. A. Single,...

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...