1900 Movies

“The filmmaker took several different scenes shot earlier between 1896 and 1899 and double-printed two sets of images together to create a new artisti...

The professor shows his power to Mephisto by mysteriously placing a young lady in a swing. Mephisto then shows his power by making the young lady disa...

A very simple gag film as a young lady substitutes herself for a dummy in order to play a practical joke on an artist.

Showing the attacking forces drawn up in line of battle. They immediately commence firing on the shore batteries. The batteries return the fire with t...

Footage from the dawn of film taken in Belle Époque-era Paris, France from 1896-1900.

Tracking shot across a bay showing a large number of fishing boats.

A crew of railroad workmen are busy along the tracks of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. When the Black Diamond Express appears in the distance, they begin...

A Chinese dragon parade.

Two sets of images are superimposed. From the side, we see a two-masted ship. Across the deck walks a skeleton. It sits down, its legs akimbo. The leg...

Two Chinese men (in full regalia) and an American-style tough are sitting at a table, eating out of bowls, all of them using chop sticks; The American...

Vesuvius erupts and people escape from a room as the ceiling falls.

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

Two bad boys enter the kitchen. One climbs to the kitchen table and takes down the old lamp, the other goes to the flour barrel and scoops out some fl...

A gardener is watering a garden. A prankster stands on his hose halting the flow until he looks at the nozzle and gets a stream of water to the face....

Sailors row a whaling boat in a medium-tight shot.

This is a new adventure in which our friend, Mr. Hooligan, appears in an entirely new capacity. On a stage a professor of magic is performing some won...

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

"This funny individual will make you laugh until your sides ache. He is funny in all his actions, yet when he puts on his shoes you can imagine the no...

Shots of waves crashing upon rocks just out of frame.

A review of the Republican Guard and firemen at Longchamp filmed by the Lumière brothers.