The best movies 1900 Pagina 17

Two sets of images are superimposed. From the side, we see a two-masted ship. Across the deck walks a skeleton. It sits down, its legs akimbo. The...

A Skirmish with the Boers Near Kimberley by a Troop of Cavalry Scouts Attached to General French's Column. A staged attack by British troops in South...

Footage from the Boer War.

This 10 second fragment is available in flipbook format, otherwise lost.

It is worthy of note that the film can be watched in a shorter amount of time than it takes to to say the film's title.

A white cat is placed on a horse's back, with trainer and two other onlookers. c1900.

The famous Polytechnic Harriers, one of Britain’s premier athletic clubs, who would later open the 1908 London Olympics, running a paper chase...

his film was shot in an alley of San Francisco's Chinatown on Saturday, September 15, 1900, at midday. The topography of the site (sloping down to...

This picture was taken at the historical point signified by the above title, where so many daring and venturesome miners have lost their lives in...

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

Two Chinese men (in full regalia) and an American-style tough are sitting at a table, eating out of bowls, all of them using chop sticks; The...

Horse drawn fire engines en route to an emergency.

1900 Gaumont version of the ubiquitous Serpentine dance, this one hand tinted. Filmmaker anonymous. (not to be mistaken with Alice...

Silent record of a performance by Joseph Pujol. He was famous for his remarkable control of the abdominal muscles, which enabled him to seemingly...

A spy is executed by firing squad.

Muskoka Lake District, Canada. Beautiful picture, showing a man casting a fly, getting a strike, and landing the trout.

Dam Square in Amsterdam, bustling with pedestrians and horse trams.

A conversation between two gents perks up when the see a picture in a magazine. A 'facial' comedy by GA Smith.

Two cooks fight, one pushing the other into a barrel and pouring a saucepan of liquid over his head. 10 second fragment available in flipbook format,...

A Victorian vaudeville routine is given the big screen treatment with camera tricks galore.Three characters straight off the vaudeville stage - the...