Movies 1900 Page 5

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...

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,...

A woman climbs out of bed and lifts her nightdress to search for a flea. Reconstructed from a late 1800s flip book

A landlady is taunted by neighborhood kids.

Drama by Walter R. Booth. Survival status unknown.

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...

A magician stuffs eight of his lovely assistants into a barrel.

A man flirts with a milk maid.

Ambulances and British troops crossing the Tugela River over the pontoon bridge near Trichardt's Drift, during the British retreat from Spion Kop in...

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

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...

The funeral of composer Johan Peter Emilius Hartmanns in Vor Frue Kirke.

Cléopâtre-Diane de Mérode (27 September 1875 - 17 October 1966) was a French dancer of the Belle Époque. She is seen here performing a traditonal...

Parody of an unknown melodrama of the period.

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

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

The launching of the ship Varèse in Livourne.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

A magician steps upon the stage carrying a hoop covered with white paper. Then in quick succession the flags of Germany, Russia, Ireland, England and...

Kathryn Osterman, the well-known vaudeville comedienne, in a complete exposition of the methods of "making-up" the face for the stage. She shows the...

While our photographers were crossing the Atlantic Ocean a most wonderful and sensational picture was secured, showing a storm at sea. The picture...

Scene from the second act of The Prince of Wales Theatre production.

Photographed February-March, 1898 in Canton, China

A burlesque on the work of highwaymen in Chicago. An elderly gentleman is sandbagged and robbed by a thug, who inadvertently leaves some money on the...

During the terrific storm all of the light craft along the dock front was lifted out of the water and washed up into the streets, many of them being...

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

Although we are led to believe that the ancient alchemists were all powerful, this picture somewhat reverses the order of things...

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

The scene opens in the interior of an artist's studio. Mephisto appears mysteriously and signals the pictures to come to life. They step down from...

As the camera looks down an open road, a horse and carriage approaches, and passes by to one side of the field of view. Soon afterwards, an...

Reenactment of a South African battle.

Photographed February 5, 1900.

The stubborn resistance of the Boers is shown by the activity and persistency with which they fire the two large field pieces immediately in the...

The title pretty much tells you all there is to know about this Edison film. It runs a very brief 27-seconds and shows a torpedo hitting its target...

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

The scene opens by showing the village girls driving home a herd of cows, and shows the native peasantry of Switzerland returning from their daily...

A woman in ballet slippers wearing a large white hat and a long white dress - with ruffles, puffy sleeves and petticoats - dances across water with...