The best movies 1901 Pagina 12

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...

The wife gets up, runs to the clock and seeing the time, hurriedly awakens her husband. They will miss the train. In their hurry they cannot find...

The film poked fun at phrenology—a highly popular 19th-century pseudoscience that claimed a person's skull shape and "bumps" could determine...

A very short, simple trick film with some pool divers in reverse.

Batley go down to Lancashire rivals Salford in the very first season of the Northern Rugby League.

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

This film recreates the arrest of Thomas Goudie, a bank employee who embezzled £170,000 to pay gambling debts, using the real locations. It...

Short film about the South African politician Paul Kruger

A comic short in which a tramp tries to ride a unicycle, but makes some very ludicrous falls and gives up in despair. Then other cyclists enter and...

Special effects film with a train double exposed on the negative, creating a ghostly image.

Outside a fairground cinematograph in Edwardian Lancashire.

Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry.

Released in 1901

Here we show Captain N. P. Nissen, formerly known as Captain Bowser, making a trip through the Whirlpool Rapids in his famous twenty-four foot craft...

Edwardian cycling competition.

A less-than-serious Leeds team take a four-goals-and-two-tries battering from Hunslet.

Here we see one of the methods employed in the search for gold, where water is scarce. We see the workmen using the water over and over again in the...

Here, as in the other pictures, we secured a most advantageous location, and we present a life size view of the casket containing the body of...

French Count Boni de Castellane, objecting to Figaro editor M. F. De Rodays's front-page accusations, rushes to the office of the Paris newspaper,...