1900 Movies

New Zealand's oldest surviving film shows a troop of horsemen from the Boer War Second Contingent in camp at one of the open days held before their de...

The parade of carriages, costumed riders, and exotic animals passing over the bridge at Inverness, Scotland, has attracted a crowd, despite the rain.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

A contortionist and her little dog, Zaza

The president of South Africa (Transvaal) visits Paris.

Scenes on an ostrich farm, filmed in Natal during the Boer War.

American athlete Richard "Dick" Sheldon performs a dance with his belly (filmed at 1900 Paris Exposition held alongside the 1900 Olympic Games).

A Chinese man lures a white girl into his den and teaches her to smoke opium. Police raid the place in a nick of time and arrest him.

A white actor in blackface steals a chicken and hides in a coal bin. A policeman looks in the coal bin, sits on the lid and calls for help. The man ha...

Two cooks fight, one pushing the other into a barrel and pouring a saucepan of liquid over his head. 10 second fragment available in flipbook format,...

A highland fling

Photographed February 5, 1900.

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....

An interesting view of Central Park before there was a skyline of buildings. All along the length of the park on both sides and to the north, with the...

Crowds at the entrance to the London Hippodrome await the departure of Sir George White. He emerges in company with Mr Cook, the manager of the theatr...

A man shaves, back to the camera, face reflected in a mirror.

Shot just a few days after the relief of Mafeking, this film captures the progress of British military personnel across the Vaal River in South Africa...

In this picture some very remarkable effects are obtained by the reversal of the motion of the negative. A man comes home, somewhat under the influenc...

Using photographs and films shot by a French Consul, Auguste François, in turn-of-the-century China, documents the historic events and everyday life...