1901 Movies

People ice skating.

Girl gives spoonful of milk to kitten. (Cut-in close-up) [The British Film Catalogue]

At a building being constructed at Broadway and 13th Street in Manhattan, a boom or crane from which a platform is suspended on a cable first pulls th...

Edwardian workers react to the camera at one of Rotherham's major employers.

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

Passengers and crew boarding the SS Saxonia.

Leicester Tigers face Plymouth in this early filmed rugby match, which took place 26 October 1901, at Leicester's Welford Road home. As is customary i...

A daredevil rides his bicycle down a ramp and attempts to land in a pool of water as a crowd of spectators watches.

Here we show Captain N. P. Nissen, formerly known as Captain Bowser, making a trip through the Whirlpool Rapids in his famous twenty-four foot craft k...

Lost comedy short film by Georges Méliès.

Silent film

The subject is a group of women bathing in a public swimming pool. The camera was placed on the edge of the pool and the full extent of the film shows...

The film shows a parade down Fifth Avenue, New York. In the foreground many children, both black and white, can be seen following alongside the parade...

In a bakery in the French countryside, Father Latourte, his wife, and their staff are busy with customers, pastries, and baked goods of all kinds. The...

Bathing Danish beauties.

Larking about during Church Lads' Brigade drill and parade in Morecambe.

This film recreates the arrest of Thomas Goudie, a bank employee who embezzled £170,000 to pay gambling debts, using the real locations. It shows the...

First comes the Chief's sleigh with old-fashioned side runners, containing the Chief and his driver. Next comes a chemical engine mounted on a stout d...