1900 Movies

Southampton High Street, train view

This scene is laid on a tropical shore. A pickaninny is fishing, when a huge alligator creeps up upon him and swallows him. The old father, who has se...

A couple is attacked by warriors.

The approach to a cantilever bridge is shown. The camera is on the front of the car traveling over the rails. The car crosses the cantilever bridge, m...

Several painters unsuccessfully try to paint something on a canvas. A man enters the scene and with a single brushstroke achieves a huge sign that say...

A magician dressed as Mephistopheles conjures up a variety of people and objects in this short film.

This British Bioscope short from 1900 is a crackerjack piece, on an order with 1903's FIREBOAT 'NEW YORKER' ANSWERING AN ALARM. It's little more than...

A short film

“Same scenery as in the previous view, the sailors embark in the canoes which take them ashore.”

In an arena, a Landes race scene with cows.

A Boer throws a bomb into the British Red Cross tent and wounds a nurse.

A German warship.

Two chaps, a Gramophone, and a dog called Nipper. What could possibly go wrong?

This film title is almost, though not quite, false advertising. There's certainly a gale, and a wrecked ship, but the one didn't cause the other. This...

An antisemitic comedy in which two Jewish clothiers cut prices until one buys the other's stock.

A black and white silent film with a descriptive title.

Cleveland Fire Department rushes to extinguish a fire as a crowd watches.

Spanish lost film about the Valencian carnival directed by Ángel García Cardona.

Trains steam past a station.

Actuality film recording the entry of British Commander-in-Chief Lord Roberts into Pretoria during the Second Boer War. The scenes show the victorious...