Movies 1900 Page 4

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair,...

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

Woman sings.

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...

Pedestrian traffic on a square, somewhere in Tokyo.

An early variety performance with synchronised gramophone sound. Thought to be an early version of The Blind Boy (1917).

Elaborate floats and costumes parading the streets of Nice.

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

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...

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

A short clip of street life in the French village Chamonix.

Comic scenes taken at the Nouveau-Cirque by the two famous clowns Foottit and Chocolat. During a battle between Foottit and Chocolat, the latter, who...

Two men lose it laughing at something in a magazine

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

A short skit in which vaudeville duo Foottit and Chocolat reenact the Wilhelm Tell routine.

Vaudeville comedians Foottit and Chocolat hop and dance around and occasionally fight.

Drama by Walter R. Booth. Survival status unknown.

Shows a party of English people in their chairs. This is the only safe way of getting about in Canton, as the streets are indescribably filthy.

Possibly the first film to utilize the technique of focus pulling. A man kisses a beautiful and lively woman, then the image blurs and dissolves into...

Panorama of the Quai de la Seine, Paris, France.

This picture shows the young cadets going through their daily exercises and drill, and is full of life, and photographically perfect.

Muskoka Lake District, Canada. Beautiful picture, showing a man casting a fly, getting a strike, and landing the trout.

James White, the Edison Company's main filmmaker at the time, realized a burst of creativity during his visit to the 1900 Paris Exposition. It's...

A moving tour through lively turn-of-the-century Southampton.

Man plays piano

“One of the most interesting places in the vicinity of Niagara Falls is the Whirlpool Rapids, where the immense volume of water which passes from...

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...

Showing the attacking forces drawn up in line of battle. They immediately commence firing on the shore batteries. The batteries return the fire with...

The famous Madison Square Garden forms the background of this excellent picture. A number of very fine automobiles pass in this strip, coming close...

One of Alberto Santos Dumont's dirigibles is led out of a hangar.

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

A man attempts to shave with a blunt razor.

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

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...

A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.

The scene opens on a theatrical stage. The magician enters from the wings, and making a bow to the audience, removes his coat and hat and they...