1900 Movies

A turn-of-the-last-century hand-tinted short, which features two women, Miss Lally and Miss Julyett, dancing at a ball. By the legendary French filmma...

Possibly the first film to utilize the technique of focus pulling. A man kisses a beautiful and lively woman, then the image blurs and dissolves into...

The picture opens with the Sultan lying down to rest on his luxurious cushioned couch. The scene changes to the grounds around the palace.

Considered the first motion picture to employ both color and sound, the only film record ever made of the original star of Rostand's famous play perfo...

The film is a panorama shot-scene lasting just under a minute. The panorama film, as coined by Lumière, is a moving-camera shot--usually accomplished...

“Showing the entire height of this wonderful structure from the base of the dome and return, with the great Paris Exposition in the background, lookin...

Madame Ondine performs a serpentine dance surrounded by big cats.

The fairy at a cabbage patch hovers over the babies. This is a remake of Guy's 1896 film on the same subject, this time shot in 35 mm.

Uncle Josh returns in this sequel to UNCLE JOSH'S NIGHTMARE. This time he checks into a hotel, presumably to get a better nights rest than he got at h...

An elderly gentleman in a silk hat sits on a stool in front of a store on the main street of town. He has a telescope that focuses on the ankle of a y...

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

First of a series of films showing visitors to the Paris Exposition 1900 standing on a mobile wooden platform.

A family sits down to enjoy a meal that ends up being fraught with complications.

“A marvelously clear picture taken from the top of the elevator of the Eiffel Tower during going up and coming down of the car. This wonderful tower i...

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 c...

A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other.

A trio of prankish boarders wreak havoc on their landlady and an intervening policeman.

"Nothing new, but an old thing done over again and done well. Some one has attempted to describe a kiss as "something made of nothing," but this is no...

A conjurer (along with two duplicates) conjure up (and then cause to vanish) a beautiful woman head-first.

A group of people cross a mountain near Chamonix and are filmed doing so by the Lumière brothers.