1900 Movies

Vittorio Calcina was the official filmographer for the House of Savoy, and as his final act of patronage to King Umberto, his funeral procession was f...

Visit of President Émile Loubet and his entourage. Lumière Catalogue #1153.

It is train time. We look down the long platform, crowded with people, and see the famous N.P. Railway Overland Express approaching rapidly. In a mome...

A shot of a busy street in Paris is shown in reverse.

With a crowded arena in the background, a stationary camera records a bull charging a picador astride his horse. An attendant on foot throws stones at...

This short film, along with other experimental sound films, is thought to have been recorded for the Paris 'Exposition Universelle' of 1900.

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

Visitors walk the gardens of Champ-de-Mars.

From behind a curtain three men appear on screen. The first wears a combination of tuxedo and kilt. The second wears a Scottish kilt and holds a spear...

A man flirts with a milk maid.

This building and machinery supplied the electric power and electric light for the entire city of Galveston, including the car system. The building, w...

Filmed in July 1900, on the Champs Elysées in Paris, France.

Reenactment of a South African battle.

This panoramic scene is taken from a Seine steamboat and gives a rapid view of the banks of the river...

Photographed February-March, 1898 in Canton, China

The scene is a railroad track on the side of a steep mountain, with a tunnel in the background, toward which a train is running at a high rate of spee...

An American Mutscope & Biograph production.

Early music hall performance designed to be performed with synchronised gramophone recorded sound.

A man misses his train due to his clothes turning into other types of clothes.