1900 Movies

Well did you ever? Two women share juicy stories, and enjoyably shocked reaction, over tea.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

First of a series of films showing visitors to the Paris Exposition 1900 standing on a mobile wooden platform.

A train snaking around Chamonix, Switzerland, with a steep Alpine slope inches away from the tracks.

Tracking shot across a bay showing a large number of fishing boats.

This picture shows the Cadets marching, countermarching and a great many interesting manoeuvres.

Muskoka Lake District, Canada. Beautiful picture, showing a man casting a fly, getting a strike, and landing the trout.

"The Bath" is a flip book remake of After the Ball (Après le Bal) made in the late 1800s.

Filming of a character sketch by the well-known vaudevillian Charles E. Grapewin. On a bare stage backed by a dark curtain, a man dressed in a three-p...

An early variety performance with synchronised gramophone sound. Thought to be an early version of The Blind Boy (1917).

1900 Gaumont version of the ubiquitous Serpentine dance, this one hand tinted. Filmmaker anonymous. (not to be mistaken with Alice Guy-Blaché's vers...

Two Chinese men (in full regalia) and an American-style tough are sitting at a table, eating out of bowls, all of them using chop sticks; The American...

A woman dancing.

Early film adaptation of The Prodigal Son.

A man attempts to shave with a blunt razor.

TRICK. Two bathers arrive at a river, disrobe at the water's edge and dive in. The action is then reversed and the men are seen leaving the water feet...

A huge fly is bothering an old gentleman, who is trying to take a nap. The old gentleman, after standing the torment as long as he can, jumps up and t...

A short film screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato 2020 and believed to have been directed by Georges Méliès.

An early short with a self-explanatory title.

While our photographers were crossing the Atlantic Ocean a most wonderful and sensational picture was secured, showing a storm at sea. The picture was...