Movies 1903 Page 8

A splendid and exciting run among the skyscrapers. Taken for the city's 250th anniversary celebration.

On April 30, 1903, one hundred years to the day after the signing in Paris of the Louisiana Purchase agreement, President Theodore Roosevelt is in St...

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...

The second film in the series shows the same girl in a brisk calisthenic exercise.

A country couple enters Coney Island's Steeplechase Park. They proceed to amuse themselves on the steeplechase, tightropes, plaza, mini-locomotive...

In the next scene all that is left of the cabin is a smoldering ruin. A company of trappers come rapidly out of the forest and discover the bodies of...

A documentary film covering the Delhi Durbar held in 1903 to mark the coronation of King Edward VII. It includes footage of Lord Curzon, the then...

An organ-grinder is playing beneath the window of a cranky old woman. She objects strenuously. The organ-grinder, egged on by Hooligan, keeps on...

A convict escapes from Portland Quarry and is caught in the woods by bloodhounds from Radnage kennels.

This is in every respect a stunning picture, though somewhat bohemian in subject. It depicts in six scenes, six lively hours at New York City's...

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

Part of Charles Urban’s Unseen World programme (1903), this microcinematographic short begins with a frog swimming in a tank, then focuses on its...

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

“Squirrel in a Cage” shows footage of two squirrels in a small cage.

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...

Presumably the woman is Betsy Ross, and she's quite a pretty woman with tumbling dark hair and coltish legs. She dances energetically, but it all...

Taken on the Lehigh Valley R. R., near Towanda, Pa., in a beautiful valley along the Susquehanna River. The train is seen approaching at a speed of...

The steamscow passes a pinnace headed in the other direction, then steams on past the huge paddlewheeler.

A static shot of a river disguised as a very big puddle. The film is about a minute long, and for probably fifty seconds of that one minute we gaze...

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

A convict escapes from Portland Quarry and is caught in the woods by bloodhounds from Radnage kennels.

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

The wagon drops of a parcel of mail in the post box which is immediately collected by a gentleman who was clearly waiting stage left for his cue.

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

One of many early silent films depicting young black men eating watermelon. This one involves a competition.

The film begins across the street from some young boys who are lined up against a curbing eating spaghetti or macaroni. The only other action occurs...

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

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...

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...

The film opens with a man standing at the brow of a hill looking off to his left as a black man pushing a cart passes behind him in the other...

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...

A pickpocket is caught in the act, and leads the police on a lengthy chase.

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

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...

Several rowing boats with tourists going to the shore of Capri.

There is painted backdrop with a wooden fence in front of it and three steps leading to a porch. A man seated on the steps is approached by two men,...

The U.S.S. "Indiana" in action. Filmed by American Mutoscope & Biograph on November 11, 1903 in Glen Island, NY.