1903 Movies

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

This is a funny one. A clown first enters with an apparently docile donkey. A colored man follows and is assisted by the clown to mount on the donkey'...

Kathryn Osterman breaks egg into a plate. As the content reaches the plate, it transforms into a baby chick. Action repeats twelve times through stop-...

As a result of a wrong movement, three persons upset their boat and fall into the water, but they find themselves again in the boat, but quite naked....

Two men do a mixed act of high-bar acrobatics and tumbling, knocking each other down and tumbling on and off stage in this short film from Pathe Frere...

A group of Jewish men in Jerusalem perform a dance.

1903 Indian short

One of the earliest successful attempts at film in natural colours, made probably by William Norman Lascelles Davidson and Benjamin Jumeaux in Brighto...

A blind beggar sees a coin is false and hits the donor with his wooden leg.

Elephant parade organized by Lord Curzon.

The King's first visit to Ireland's second city - where he unveils Belfast's iconic Queen Victoria statue.

“Squirrel in a Cage” shows footage of two squirrels in a small cage.

One of the first Swedish sound films, the audio has been lost though.

"Carl Neubronner with his Daughter Ilse" shows Julius Neubronner's son at play with his daughter. Lying on his back, Carl balances the child on his fe...

Scenes from a series filmed for Charles Urban by mountain expert Frank Ormiston-Smith, including The Battle of the Snow, Ski Jumping in the Alps, and...

Taken from the front end of a locomotive following an express train at high speed around the high curves of the Ninth Avenue Elevated, from the 104th...