1900 Movies

Alberto Santos Dumont flies one of his dirigibles.

Shots of the panorama, filmed from the winding railroad tracks that stretch along the coast, from Beaulieu to Monaco, including tunnel passages.

People gather at the exit of the St. Trophime cathedral in Arles.

The titles tell us this film is based on an incident in the Boxer Rebellion. A man tries to defend a woman and a large house against Chinese attackers...

Poor Uncle Josh is trying to get to sleep, but being constantly bedevilled by a fellow in red long underwear with horns. A short early trick editing f...

The 1900 Paris World's Fair as seen from Trocadéro.

Prince Edward of York, executing the manual of arms, attended by Prince Albert, and Princess Victoria, of York.

Two bad boys enter the kitchen. One climbs to the kitchen table and takes down the old lamp, the other goes to the flour barrel and scoops out some fl...

Overview of the Alexandre III bridge during the World Exhibition in Paris.

Drama by Walter R. Booth. Survival status unknown.

Considered the first motion picture to employ both color and sound, the only film record ever made of the original star of Rostand's famous play perfo...

Uncle Josh checks into a hotel, presumably to get a better nights rest than he gets at home. Of course the way bad luck follows Josh around we know th...

Single shot of a column of Gordon Highlanders marching out of their camp at Ladysmith to meet General Buller's relief column.

The Prince of Wales reviews Paget's Horse, with black dog following.

Trick film. A stage magician transforms a woman into a butterfly and himself into a giant bat. This film is considered lost.

Filmed off the coast of Rhode Island, this Edison short takes place on the U.S. torpedo boat Morris as we see some men loading up a torpedo that is ev...

Four roped men descend through the seracs of the Mer de Glace. One of them falls and has to be hoisted. The shot belongs to a collection of scenes tha...

A scene from Charles Dickens' Bleak House. Despite the common belief, this is NOT the world's first Dickens' adaptation in cinema.

Near the center of this scene we see the regimental surgeon directing the movements of the Ambulance Corps. Tenderly they pick up the unfortunates and...