1900 Movies

Visitors walk the gardens of Champ-de-Mars.

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

Panorama of the Swiss city.

A short film screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato 2020 and believed to have been directed by Georges Méliès.

Carlotta Zambelli dances for the camera.

This scene is laid in the parlor of a New York tenement. Two watchers at the wake are smoking and drinking, while the widow is weeping over the coffin...

A very lifelike picture of the famous New York politician and Tammany Hall boss. This picture was taken on Sunday morning [sic] as he was leaving the...

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

Scenes on an ostrich farm, filmed in Natal during the Boer War.

A bunch of cyclists going past the camera.

Silent record of a performance by Joseph Pujol. He was famous for his remarkable control of the abdominal muscles, which enabled him to seemingly fart...

A couple is attacked by warriors.

Photographed February 5, 1900.

Gen. Frederick D. Grant, and Gen. A.S. Burt returning from Mt. Ariat, at the head of the famous 25th Infantry, colored.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

A huge fly is bothering an old gentleman, who is trying to take a nap. The old gentleman, after standing the torment as long as he can, jumps up and t...

Crowds at the entrance to the London Hippodrome await the departure of Sir George White. He emerges in company with Mr Cook, the manager of the theatr...