1901 Movies

Silent short film portraying photographer Pedro Sanquirico.

A few days before the Christmas holiday, a large family decides to put on a home-made play as part of their holiday together. The mother writes the pl...

Persons who have visited the "Hub," no doubt carried away with vivid recollections of Boston's famous system of Underground Transportation and this fi...

Early footage of the Lucania passenger liner.

Studies on human pathological locomotion.

Exciting scenes of amateur cycling's 'Race of Champions' at Manchester's Fallowfield track.

A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.

Outside a fairground cinematograph in Edwardian Lancashire.

Stage star Anna Held (1872-1918) riffs on her once-famous scene from the comedy Papa's Wife (1899-1901) featuring a naif getting tipsy on her first ch...

This is a news actuality film of the former Commander in Chief of the Boer War, Lord Roberts, visiting Manchester to much hoopla.

A conjurer vanishes animals then vanishes himself.

A rare glimpse of early Edwardian Manchester when the horse-drawn tram still reigned supreme.

Excursions in the mountains of a group of riders.

A young man's telephone call to his sweetheart is intercepted by her father, who beats him with his umbrella.

Girls gut herring on the quay at North Shields while a Showman tries to stir up trouble.

Lost short film from Georges Méliès.

On 28 January 1901 the great musician Giuseppe Verdi died from the consequences of a stroke that had struck him six days earlier. These very rare imag...

The might of the British Navy struts its stuff down the Manchester Ship Canal.