The best movies 1903 Pagina 21

America's Cup Races.

It is to laugh. Just see this picture and split your sides with laughter. A large head of enormous proportions faces the audience, and makes grimaces...

Two men do a mixed act of high-bar acrobatics and tumbling, knocking each other down and tumbling on and off stage in this short film from Pathe...

Join the Sunday morning crowds at the famous East End market, home of London's rag trade.

Taken from the front end of a locomotive following an express train at high speed around the high curves of the Ninth Avenue Elevated, from the 104th...

The film depict elephants hard at work, moving logs and performing other back-breaking labor under the watchful eyes of their handlers.

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

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

From left to right, we see the heads of several well-known people performed by actor Henri Plessis.

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.

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...

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

Girl dreams of Dick Whittington, Robinson Crusoe, Forty Thieves, Aladdin, Cinderella, Bluebeard, and Red Riding Hood.

Male letter carriers of the U.S. Post Office are the subject of this series on the Postal Department. The camera was placed to show a large number of...

Three women in pajamas dance for the camera.

A number of boys are engaged in a tub race. They are lined up in a row, and the fun begins from the start. Some of the tubs upset and give the boys a...

Siegmund Lubin's 1903 film survives and is the only vestige of Lubin's myriad attempts at coordinating sound and film extant today. With words by...

Two men spot a couple of dressed mannequins standing outside a tailor shop. As a joke, they move them into a public urinal (vespasienne). One by one,...

A Postman Picking up Mail

A man puts up a poster, which turns out to be someones window.

The tops of some buildings are visible in the background. The camera was elevated several stories above the ground. In the immediate foreground,...