1900 Movies

A moving tour through lively turn-of-the-century Southampton.

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...

Alberto Santos Dumont flies one of his dirigibles.

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...

Although we are led to believe that the ancient alchemists were all powerful, this picture somewhat reverses the order of things...

"This is the last ceremonious public appearance of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria. The picture was taken in Phoenix Park, Dublin, April 4th, 1900, and sh...

The magic of a real solar eclipse filmed on 28 May, 1900 by a famous magician, Nevil Maskelyne, while on an expedition by The British Astronomical Ass...

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...

Beginning with the camera pointing toward the Invalides entrance, with the tomb of Napoleon in the background. The camera is slowly revolved until it...

This picture shows the remains of one of the docks, several freight cars being piled one upon the other, while the most interesting part of the pictur...

Comic scenes taken at the Nouveau-Cirque by the two famous clowns Foottit and Chocolat. During a battle between Foottit and Chocolat, the latter, who...

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

At the first news of the disast by cyclone and tidal wave that devastated Galveston on Saturday, September 8th, 1900, we equipped a party of photograp...

An early short with a self-explanatory title.

The magician enters upon a stage, and removing a covering from a small table, shakes it before the audience to show that there is nothing whatever con...

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

A series of short motion-studies of athletes for the 1900 Olympics in Paris.

This is the building in which so many of the poor orphans met their death. The place is completely dismantled. In addition to the orphanage is shown o...

Filmed off the coast of Rhode Island, this Edison short takes place on the U.S. torpedo boat Morris as we see some men loading up a torpedo that is ev...