1900 Movies

“The filmmaker took several different scenes shot earlier between 1896 and 1899 and double-printed two sets of images together to create a new artisti...

Newly-arrived British troops march away from the jetty towards a square and are surrounded by the waiting crowds.

In China at the turn of the 20th century, there was a rebel group called the Society of the Harmonious Fist, otherwise known as Boxers. They attacked...

Throngs of men in top hats walk past the camera.

Funeral ceremonies in memory of King Umberto I, attended by President Campos Sales.

A view of Dam Square and the Damrak. To the right the 'Beurs van Zocher', the commodity exchange building of architect J.D. Zocher.

An advertisement made for Dewar's whisky brand.

Showing the Whilrpool Rapids as they are seen from the front of a car on the Great Gorge Road.

You’ll need your sea legs to watch this film, which was apparently filmed from a perilous position on the ship’s mast - in rough seas. This is a nauti...

Solser en Hesse was a short Dutch silent film featuring the comedians Lion Solser and Piet Hesse. the film was first distributed in the Netherlands by...

This 10 second fragment is available in flipbook format, otherwise lost.

Two men lose it laughing at something in a magazine

This film belongs to the PHONO CINEMA THEATRE programme that ran during the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1900, with synchronized screenings of fil...

Studies on human pathological locomotion.

Yet another factory gate exit film from Mitchell and Kenyon.

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...

Footage showing Arab riders.

It is worthy of note that the film can be watched in a shorter amount of time than it takes to to say the film's title.