Movies 1903 Page 2

A stationary camera looks on as two dapper gents play a game of chess. One drinks and smokes, and when he looks away, his opponent moves two pieces....

Film depicting the killing of Topsy, an elephant employed to help build Luna Park on Coney Island.

Taken from the front of a descending car, the track and the way in which the fertile valleys open out on either side, with the huge snow-capped...

A woman riding a train must contend with the unwelcome advances of a male passenger.

Tramps stick a hot poker in a barrel labelled beer but containing gunpowder.

A panorama shot of the Norwegian town and harbour of Hammerfest. Believed to be the earliest surviving film of Norway.

A woman being fitted for shoes exposes her ankle to the shoe clerk, who is intrigued. He kisses her, but her chaperone hits him with her umbrella.

Much nerve is required by those who participate in this sport as some of the curves of the course are most acute and dangerous, especially at the...

A simple scene of two rather flamboyantly-dressed Edwardian children attempting to feed a spoonful of medicine to a sick kitten. The film is...

20 scenes: The birth, life, marriage and death of Hiawatha.

This film gives a fine panoramic view of this wonderful railway track through immense gorges and cuttings and snow baulks of from 15 to 20 feet high...

The capital of Switzerland is an interesting town, and the national life is perhaps best seen in its streets.

This is a funny one. A clown first enters with an apparently docile donkey. A colored man follows and is assisted by the clown to mount on the...

Shows a large open barge loaded with people of every nationality, disembarking at Ellis Island, N. Y. A most interesting and typical scene.

A filmed record of a fan dancer performing a dance using two white sheets suspended from poles which she frantically twirls around herself to create...

"Cholly" wishes to call on his best girl and sends her a large bouquet. To find out if the girl really loves him, he sends a note with the messenger...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The ascent of the Jungfrau by the Urban Alpine Expedition, headed by Frank Ormiston-Smith, the pioneer mountaineering photograher and filmmaker, on...

Boys play a rough game of leap frog.