1900 Movies

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...

A conversation between two gents perks up when the see a picture in a magazine. A 'facial' comedy by GA Smith.

A girl in a Sevillian dress dances to the sound of music played a couple of men at the "Féria Sevillanos" [sic] during the Exposition Universelle de P...

Naval ratings pulling along naval guns during the Boer War.

The Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre was a special pavilion at the 1900 Paris World's Fair which featured filmed performances presented with sound via wax cylinde...

Consisting of a single shot, Spiders on a Web is one of the earliest British examples of close-up natural history photography. Made by one of the pion...

A combination of the picture entitled "The Ballet of the Ghosts," and a surf scene; the resulting effect being that the ghostly figures rise up out of...

Butterfly dance.

A man and a child are washing a small dog in a tub, while a large dog is circling around them, barking.

The scene opens in the interior of an artist's studio. Mephisto appears mysteriously and signals the pictures to come to life. They step down from the...

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...

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

Brazilian President Manuel Ferraz de Campos Salles visits Argentina in 1900.

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...

The scene takes place in a fashionable cafe. A well dressed couple enter, and after a careful perusal of the menu, conclude on an order of boiled eggs...

Shots of the panorama, filmed from the winding railroad tracks that stretch along the coast, from Beaulieu to Monaco, including tunnel passages.

The 1900 Paris World's Fair as seen from Trocadéro.

The single camera position is from the top of a building identified as the Trocadero Palace; The camera is pointed toward the Eiffel Tower. The film s...

Trick film. A stage magician transforms a woman into a butterfly and himself into a giant bat. This film is considered lost.