The best movies 1901 Pagina 11

In a recreation of the celebrated painting An Affair of Honor by Emile-Antoine Bayard, several young women are drinking at a restaurant. One is...

The evolution of Rugby League in a top of the table match between rival Lancashire clubs.

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Comedy short film by Georges Méliès.

On 28 January 1901 the great musician Giuseppe Verdi died from the consequences of a stroke that had struck him six days earlier. These very rare...

As a young woman is entertaining her lover in the living room, she hears what she thinks is her father coming and urges the young man to hide in the...

An inventive use of slow-motion filming helps hammer home the gag as an unconvincing 'Indian chief' hopes to dissolve some trapped wind with a...

An opium smoker intoxicated by this poison, falls asleep and dreams that he is in prison.

Did he bowl or did he throw? A fascinating record of an early cricketing controversy.

Released in 1901

A large group of boys play hockey. One of the boys has only one leg, but with the help of a crutch, skates about and puts up a very successful game.

Early Gaumont dance film frequently attributed, but not confirmed, to Alice Guy. A young Basque man and his companion sketch various Basque dance...

This picture was photographed immediately after the shooting, and shows the intense excitement of the people...

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

A Country school room is first seen in this picture in which so many startling changes take place that the Master is bewildered and is driven mad by...

This film is difficult to classify. It opens on a scene showing a mourner with bowed head sitting in front of what appears to be a tombstone. Shortly...

Lost film by Georges Méliès, released as an "artistic subject."

This picture shows the miners washing out gold by what is known as the sluice box method. Here we see the miners shovelling from both sides the soil...

"A series of films taken during a difficult and dangerous ascent of the Jungfrau;, showing views of the climbers at an height of over 13,000 feet....

This subject is in three scenes, showing beautiful dissolving effects. Scene 3. The Man Behind that Teacup shows Admiral Sampson the centre of...

Released in 1901.

Carrie Nation and a fellow matronly crusader enter a bar with their hatchets and demolish everything in sight. Mrs. Nation, however, knocks out the...