Movies 1903 Page 9

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 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...

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

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

1903 Indian short

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Happy Hooligan is thrust into prison, but makes the most of his hardship. He is seen in his cell enjoying a full meal of prison hash.

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

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

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...

This film shows a mechanical ride in an amusement park, designed to allow customers to ride down an undulating incline astride wooden horses. Several...

Film taken from a boat heading down the Hudson is shown at varying speeds, often giving a sense of rapid transit.

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

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...

A single man waits by the roadside while nearby we see the rears of four horses, their swishing tails providing the only on-screen action. Then a...

An elegent parade shot.

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...

The camera was placed to encompass a set of the backstage dressing room of a burlesque show. There are three chorus girls and one featured dancer in...

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

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

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

A circus ring located outdoors next to the pavilion at Luna Park is shown. Two performers work with a large circus horse, doing acrobatics on and off...

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...

This picture gives a good idea of how soon one of the New York fireboats can be gotten under way after they receive an alarm of fire...

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...

Kissing couple interrupted by the lady's angry father.

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...

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...

Elephant parade organized by Lord Curzon.

A film about workers leaving a factory.

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

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

Steam and sail drifters entering the harbour. The first shot on the Quay shows ranks of drifters, with fisher girls walking arm-in-arm. There are...