1903 Movies

This film shows a mechanical ride in an amusement park, designed to allow customers to ride down an undulating incline astride wooden horses. Several...

A celebratory country dance.

Close-up of a hand doing magic tricks with coins. Directed by Alf Collins.

Young boys do naval exercises on board a ship.

Soldiers jump over each others’ backs in two lines advancing toward the camera.

Single shot panning across a landscape. Edison films, 1903.

Produced by the Charles Urban Trading Company

Looking from left to right, the actor shows the heads of various types of men in ever-changing disguises.

Pedestrians, horse carts wagons and electric tram cross large open cross roads near Boar Lane, Leeds, Yorkshire.

This short film from the Corrick Collection by the Corrick Family Entertainers features documentary footage taken in Singapore.

Here, on Grand Trunk's main line between Canada and the US, one of Biograph's early production crews rode the pilot of a locomotive from Sarnia, Ontar...

The films shows the arrival of a group from the British court in Tehran from the streets to the palace, in order to gift the Order of Garter to Mozaff...

The USS Indiana stages a rescue operation of a crewman that's fallen overboard.

A sentry is surprised by a bear and is trapped atop his guardhouse, until the timely intervention of a thief distracts the bear.

This film was part of a lecture series conducted by Burton Holmes showing a mix of lantern slides and motion pictures of Yosemite entitled, “The Yosem...

Staging of a song by Miguel F. López.