The best movies 1900

Cléo de Merode dancing the gavotte in 1900.

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

The movie consists solely of a saber fight. Bernhardt plays a cross-gender Hamlet, and Pierre Magnier is her fellow duelist, Laertes. A few...

Four men each hold a large slice of watermelon, and have a race to see who can finish eating first. All four move quickly, but one man seems to be...

Cléopâtre-Diane de Mérode (27 September 1875 - 17 October 1966) was a French dancer of the Belle Époque. She is seen here...

A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.

Shots of the panorama, filmed from the winding railroad tracks that stretch along the coast, from Beaulieu to Monaco, including tunnel passages.

A burlesque on the work of highwaymen in Chicago. An elderly gentleman is sandbagged and robbed by a thug, who inadvertently leaves some money on the...

Elaborate floats and costumes parading the streets of Nice.

The titles tell us this film is based on an incident in the Boxer Rebellion. A man tries to defend a woman and a large house against Chinese...

Parody of an unknown melodrama of the period.

A man and a child are washing a small dog in a tub, while a large dog is circling around them, barking.

Four roped men descend through the seracs of the Mer de Glace. One of them falls and has to be hoisted. The shot belongs to a collection of scenes...

“A marvelously clear picture taken from the top of the elevator of the Eiffel Tower during going up and coming down of the car. This wonderful...

The Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre was a special pavilion at the 1900 Paris World's Fair which featured filmed performances presented with...

The film is a panorama shot-scene lasting just under a minute. The panorama film, as coined by Lumière, is a moving-camera shot--usually...

Recovering from a severe illness (likely typhoid), W.K.L. Dickson received word from London that the audience's enthusiasm for the military was...

Marquesas in their sedan chairs.

A Lumière Brothers short film.

Produced by Casa Lepage, it is the first appearance of tango in the cinema, as it contains brief scenes in which the dancer El Negro Agapito...

Brazilian President Manuel Ferraz de Campos Salles visits Argentina in 1900.

Spanish lost film about the Valencian carnival directed by Ángel García Cardona.

Spanish lost film about Valencian traditions directed by Ángel García Cardona.

Spanish lost film directed by Ángel García Cardona. There is, however, a fragment that could correspond to this film.

Several painters unsuccessfully try to paint something on a canvas. A man enters the scene and with a single brushstroke achieves a huge sign that...