1900 Movies

Butterfly dance.

A Japanese theatre performance based on a legend.

James White, the Edison Company's main filmmaker at the time, realized a burst of creativity during his visit to the 1900 Paris Exposition. It's uncer...

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 panoramic shot, making a full circle, at the 1900 Paris Exposition. It begins and ends looking at the front of the Palace of Electricity. As it pans...

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....

This building and machinery supplied the electric power and electric light for the entire city of Galveston, including the car system. The building, w...

The scene opens on a theatrical stage. The magician enters from the wings, and making a bow to the audience, removes his coat and hat and they disappe...

Madame Ondine performs a serpentine dance surrounded by big cats.

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

The stubborn resistance of the Boers is shown by the activity and persistency with which they fire the two large field pieces immediately in the foreg...

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...

A client has trouble listening to the photographer's instructions.

A Thomas Edison film showing a torpedo being shot.

Prince Edward of York, executing the manual of arms, attended by Prince Albert, and Princess Victoria, of York.

Shows all the prominent buildings on this thoroughfare, ending with a close view of the base of the Eiffel Tower, with the Trocadero Palace in the bac...

A burlesque on the work of highwaymen in Chicago. An elderly gentleman is sandbagged and robbed by a thug, who inadvertently leaves some money on the...

Filmed in July 1900, on the Champs Elysées in Paris, France.

The launching of the ship Varèse in Livourne.