1900 Movies

“A marvelously clear picture taken from the top of the elevator of the Eiffel Tower during going up and coming down of the car. This wonderful tower i...

Two sets of images are superimposed. From the side, we see a two-masted ship. Across the deck walks a skeleton. It sits down, its legs akimbo. The leg...

Aboard the 'Tonkin' - jumping rope.

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

A gardener is watering a garden. A prankster stands on his hose halting the flow until he looks at the nozzle and gets a stream of water to the face....

This shows the heart of one of the tremendous drifts in the east end of Galveston. Hundreds of dead bodies are concealed in these immense masses, and...

"This funny individual will make you laugh until your sides ache. He is funny in all his actions, yet when he puts on his shoes you can imagine the no...

A dancer personifying Winter, dances in the snow.

A girl in a Sevillian dress dances to the sound of music played a couple of men at the "Féria Sevillanos" [sic] during the Exposition Universelle de P...

A Japanese theatre performance based on a legend.

The magician enters upon a stage, and removing a covering from a small table, shakes it before the audience to show that there is nothing whatever con...

Butterfly dance.

A group of tambours and dancers in traditional outfits pass the camera.

Shots of the panorama, filmed from the winding railroad tracks that stretch along the coast, from Beaulieu to Monaco, including tunnel passages.

Single shot of a column of Gordon Highlanders marching out of their camp at Ladysmith to meet General Buller's relief column.

This is the building in which so many of the poor orphans met their death. The place is completely dismantled. In addition to the orphanage is shown o...

Vesuvius erupts and people escape from a room as the ceiling falls.

This picture shows thousands of people leaving their seats in the grand stand and going across the parade grounds toward Paris. A very sharp and clear...

Naval ratings pulling along naval guns during the Boer War.

A combination of the picture entitled "The Ballet of the Ghosts," and a surf scene; the resulting effect being that the ghostly figures rise up out of...