1900 Movies

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

Cléo de Merode dancing the gavotte in 1900.

A Skirmish with the Boers Near Kimberley by a Troop of Cavalry Scouts Attached to General French's Column. A staged attack by British troops in South...

Studies on human pathological locomotion.

The scenes opens by showing the battleships maneuvering for a position. They finally draw up in line of battle and commence firing on the shore batter...

A man exchanges shoe blacking for his friend's soap.

Recovering from a severe illness (likely typhoid),W.K.L. Dickson received word from London that the audience's enthusiasm for the military was lessen...

Alberto Santos Dumont flies one of his dirigibles.

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...

The famous Polytechnic Harriers, one of Britain’s premier athletic clubs, who would later open the 1908 London Olympics, running a paper chase – a gru...

This very dramatic scene appears to come from the heart of the Boer War action, but on closer inspection it is clear that Joe Rosenthal staged this sc...

There's an organ grinder on the stage, standing in front of a backdrop that's supposed to look like the street. Some young women come up and do a high...

Footage from the Boer War.

A succession of British soldiers are carried up a gangplank by stretcher-bearers from the quayside to a hospital ship at Durban; walking casualties ma...

A succession of British soldiers are carried up a gangplank by stretcher-bearers from the quayside to a hospital ship at Durban; walking casualties ma...

Ground level view of a column of Australian cavalry riding down Adderley Street in Cape Town watched by enthusiastic crowds.

Newly-arrived British troops march away from the jetty towards a square and are surrounded by the waiting crowds.

The approach to a cantilever bridge is shown. The camera is on the front of the car traveling over the rails. The car crosses the cantilever bridge, m...

General Mitre and others visit the Museo Nacional.

Animal herding across a large river.