1902 Movies

The ornate pavilions of cinematographs, boxing booths and menageries at Hull Fair.

A reenactment of a dirigible explosion in Paris.

A comic picture that defies description. It depicts the Twentieth Century up-to-date tramp flying over the chimney tops of New York City in the latest...

A prestidigitator orders his assistant to bring a cabinet, which is displayed piece by piece to the audience. Two gentlemen are then introduced; they...

An early hand-tinted adaptation of Ali Baba.

Three girls are taking a bath in a quiet, shady spot along a beautiful stream. Another young lady in bathing attire reclines on the bank. The latter s...

A fighting couple gets interrupted by the landlady.

First narrative polish film. The janitor sweeps the pavement in front of the tenement house. A carriage comes with a rather solidly inserted young man...

The public throughout the world is acquainted with the sensational capture of the Biddle Brothers and Mrs. Soffel, who, through the aid of Mrs. Soffel...

One of the two oldest known films made in Poland, with the other being The Return of a Merry Fellow, also made in 1902.

A baker's assistant throws a handful of dough at a rat. The dough sticks to the side of a barrel and the assistant proceeds to sculpt the dough into v...

A busy street scene on Lower Broadway,

"Danse excentrique" (Gaumont #587) is part of the "Miss Lina Esbrard. Danseuse cosmopolite et serpentine" series of 4 films, and should not be confuse...

At the christening and launching, our cameras occupied a most enviable position, being within ten feet of Miss Alice Roosevelt and Prince Henry at the...

It is winter and a couple invites an old woman to eat. The old woman then becomes a fairy and makes the spring appears.

A fire has swept through Durland's Riding Academy in Manhattan. The fire has mostly died down, but firefighters are still at the scene, hosing down th...

A policeman is run over by an automobile

Reproduction of the terrible catastrophe which annihilated the town of St. Peter on May 8, 1902.

Nikolai II (1868-1918),the last Russian czar, son of Alexander III and Dagmar. He had been in Denmark on vacation with his parents several times. The...