1903 Movies

  • 1903
    Le marchand de statues

    Le marchand de statues

    Le marchand de statues

    41903HD

    A dealer in statues hustles a drunkard who retaliates by breaking all the statues, the Dealer rushes off for the police but upon his return with the o...

    Le marchand de statues
  • 1903
    The Great Yarmouth Herring Fisheries

    The Great Yarmouth Herring Fisheries

    The Great Yarmouth Herring Fisheries

    71903HD

    Steam and sail drifters entering the harbour. The first shot on the Quay shows ranks of drifters, with fisher girls walking arm-in-arm. There are swil...

    The Great Yarmouth Herring Fisheries
  • 1903
    Seashore Frolics

    Seashore Frolics

    Seashore Frolics

    61903HD

    Shows a number of young men and women playing leap-frog. The men stoop over and the girls jump upon their backs and are bounced until they fall off. T...

    Seashore Frolics
  • 1903
    The Johnnie and the Telephone

    The Johnnie and the Telephone

    The Johnnie and the Telephone

    51903HD

    The camera was placed to encompass a set of the backstage dressing room of a burlesque show. There are three chorus girls and one featured dancer in t...

    The Johnnie and the Telephone
  • 1903
    Tying Up Bags for Train, U.S.P.O.

    Tying Up Bags for Train, U.S.P.O.

    Tying Up Bags for Train, U.S.P.O.

    41903HD

    Another short entry in a series about the banality of postal delivery.

    Tying Up Bags for Train, U.S.P.O.
  • 1903
    Clerks Tying Bags, U.S.P.O.

    Clerks Tying Bags, U.S.P.O.

    Clerks Tying Bags, U.S.P.O.

    51903HD

    Another early short presenting the workings of the Postal Service.

    Clerks Tying Bags, U.S.P.O.
  • 1903
    Loading Mail Car, U.S.P.O.

    Loading Mail Car, U.S.P.O.

    Loading Mail Car, U.S.P.O.

    41903HD

    This one shows the wagon that collected mail sacks from a streetcar in Washington pulling up besides a railroad mail car before reversing up to it.

    Loading Mail Car, U.S.P.O.
  • 1903
    Post Man Delivering Mail, U.S.P.O.

    Post Man Delivering Mail, U.S.P.O.

    Post Man Delivering Mail, U.S.P.O.

    41903HD

    This film, one in a seemingly endless series of films made by American Mutoscope & Biograph for the United States Post Office, stands out by virtue of...

    Post Man Delivering Mail, U.S.P.O.
  • 1903
    Wagons Loading Mail, U.S.P.O.

    Wagons Loading Mail, U.S.P.O.

    Wagons Loading Mail, U.S.P.O.

    41903HD

    Yet another in a vast series of films made by American Mutoscope & Biograph for the United States Postal Service which demonstrated all aspects of the...

    Wagons Loading Mail, U.S.P.O.
  • 1903
    Rural Wagon Delivering Mail, U.S.P.O.

    Rural Wagon Delivering Mail, U.S.P.O.

    Rural Wagon Delivering Mail, U.S.P.O.

    51903HD

    The wagon drops of a parcel of mail in the post box which is immediately collected by a gentleman who was clearly waiting stage left for his cue.

    Rural Wagon Delivering Mail, U.S.P.O.
  • 1903
    Rural Wagon Giving Mail to Branch, U.S.P.O.

    Rural Wagon Giving Mail to Branch, U.S.P.O.

    Rural Wagon Giving Mail to Branch, U.S.P.O.

    41903HD

    The film opens with a man standing at the brow of a hill looking off to his left as a black man pushing a cart passes behind him in the other directio...

    Rural Wagon Giving Mail to Branch, U.S.P.O.
  • 1903
    Special Delivery Messenger, U.S.P.O.

    Special Delivery Messenger, U.S.P.O.

    Special Delivery Messenger, U.S.P.O.

    41903HD

    American Mutoscope & Biograph made a whole series of these films covering everything from the mail being collected from post boxes to being delivered...

    Special Delivery Messenger, U.S.P.O.
  • 1903
    Exchange of Mail at Rural P.O., U.S.P.O.

    Exchange of Mail at Rural P.O., U.S.P.O.

    Exchange of Mail at Rural P.O., U.S.P.O.

    41903HD

    Another in a series of films made for the USPO in 1903, this short shows a small coach pulling up outside a rural post office. A man climbs out of the...

    Exchange of Mail at Rural P.O., U.S.P.O.
  • 1903
    Transporting Internal Rev. Stamps, U.S.P.O.

    Transporting Internal Rev. Stamps, U.S.P.O.

    Transporting Internal Rev. Stamps, U.S.P.O.

    41903HD

    What we basically have here is a one-minute film of a couple of men unloading sacks from a horse-drawn wagon...

    Transporting Internal Rev. Stamps, U.S.P.O.
  • 1903
    Routing Mail, U.S.P.O.

    Routing Mail, U.S.P.O.

    Routing Mail, U.S.P.O.

    51903HD

    The film shows a post office worker inserting mail into pigeon holes.

    Routing Mail, U.S.P.O.
  • 1903
    Street Mail Car, U.S.P.O.

    Street Mail Car, U.S.P.O.

    Street Mail Car, U.S.P.O.

    41903HD

    The first scene appears to have been taken on a main thoroughfare of large city. In the immediate foreground is a horse-drawn U.S. mail vehicle waitin...

    Street Mail Car, U.S.P.O.
  • 1903
    Old Mail Coach at Ford, U.S.P.O.

    Old Mail Coach at Ford, U.S.P.O.

    Old Mail Coach at Ford, U.S.P.O.

    41903HD

    A static shot of a river disguised as a very big puddle. The film is about a minute long, and for probably fifty seconds of that one minute we gaze bl...

    Old Mail Coach at Ford, U.S.P.O.
  • 1903
    Throwing Mail Into Bags, U.S.P.O.

    Throwing Mail Into Bags, U.S.P.O.

    Throwing Mail Into Bags, U.S.P.O.

    61903HD

    A few guys sorting packages.

    Throwing Mail Into Bags, U.S.P.O.
  • 1903
    Collecting Mail, U.S.P.O.

    Collecting Mail, U.S.P.O.

    Collecting Mail, U.S.P.O.

    41903HD

    Entry in a series about the United States Postal Service.

    Collecting Mail, U.S.P.O.
  • 1903
    Coach at Rural Post Office, U.S.P.O.

    Coach at Rural Post Office, U.S.P.O.

    Coach at Rural Post Office, U.S.P.O.

    41903HD

    A single man waits by the roadside while nearby we see the rears of four horses, their swishing tails providing the only on-screen action. Then a stag...

    Coach at Rural Post Office, U.S.P.O.