Movies 1902

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon....

Inside an operating room, a surgeon performs several procedures of "modern" surgery.

Georges Méliès adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, the first film adaptation of the story. Filmed in black & white, Méliès would then paint the film...

First narrative polish film. The janitor sweeps the pavement in front of the tenement house. A carriage comes with a rather solidly inserted young...

The ornate pavilions of cinematographs, boxing booths and menageries at Hull Fair.

“This is an absolutely new and extraordinary subject. A juggler takes in succession about a dozen eggs out of his servant's mouth. He breaks all...

A woman, in her bedroom, is putting her jewelry away. Alarmed by strange noises at her door, she hides behind her bed. A burglar enters the room and...

Pierrot woos Columbine, who abandons Harlequin. An old witch hands Harlequin a magical flute that will make his wishes come true, whenever it is...

Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar.

A magician performs various tricks.

Harlequin is walking in a garden with Columbine. As he moves away to the distance and leaves her on her own, Mephisto appears, from inside a well,...

A woman, who tried to smuggle goods under her clothes, is brought to an excise duty office for further inspection.

A short melodrama based on Hans Christian Andersen's harrowing tale. A poor little girl tries to sell matchsticks in the freezing December cold. She...

A Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter.

Georges Méliès' adaptation of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" is most distinguished, today, for being a color film of the classic story....

A comic picture that defies description. It depicts the Twentieth Century up-to-date tramp flying over the chimney tops of New York City in the...

An early hand-tinted adaptation of Ali Baba.

Sparkling images of fans and players at an Edwardian fixture at Sheffield's Bramall Lane.

The ornate pavilions of cinematographs, boxing booths and menageries at Hull Fair.

Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar.

A short melodrama based on Hans Christian Andersen's harrowing tale. A poor little girl tries to sell matchsticks in the freezing December cold. She...

A Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter.

A comic picture that defies description. It depicts the Twentieth Century up-to-date tramp flying over the chimney tops of New York City in the...

Sparkling images of fans and players at an Edwardian fixture at Sheffield's Bramall Lane.

This is one of four two-minute extracts from a two to three-hour procession, held to commemorate her legend in Coventry on the afternoon of 9th...

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of the famous fairy tale story of Jack and his magic beanstalk....

This picture depicts the eruption of the volcano by which over 30,000 souls were hurled into eternity. The numerous explosions which took place...

The model of a photographer keeps changing from a beautiful woman to an ugly tramp.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

A pioneering mountaineering film made by Frank Ormiston-Smith for the Warwick Trading Company in 1902. Ormiston-Smith himself led and filmed an...

A fire has swept through Durland's Riding Academy in Manhattan. The fire has mostly died down, but firefighters are still at the scene, hosing down...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Shows ice plows in operation, drawn by horses and guided by men on skates. The plows are first operated in one direction and then crosswise, cutting...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Following the successful ascent of Mont Blanc, the Warwick Trading Company expedition led by Frank Ormiston-Smith went on to film the ascent of the...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

This film records the arrival of the Governor General of Canada, the Earl of Minto, accompanied by the Countess of Minto and their household, as they...

A ropey pitch and worse goalkeeping in a typical non-league football derby in Edwardian Yorkshire.