1900 Movies

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

Possibly the sensation of the flight of a bird can be nearest realized by being on deck of one of the U.S. Government's fleet torpedo boats racing at...

A comical fight between two Hebrews; one a pushcart man, and the other a suspender peddler.

Cléo de Merode dancing the gavotte in 1900.

A dramatic scene - and exactly what moving pictures were invented for. With a fixed camera and without a traditional narrative, this film nevertheless...

This very dramatic scene appears to come from the heart of the Boer War action, but on closer inspection it is clear that Joe Rosenthal staged this sc...

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

TRICK. Two bathers arrive at a river, disrobe at the water's edge and dive in. The action is then reversed and the men are seen leaving the water feet...

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

An early short with a self-explanatory title.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

A spy is executed by firing squad.

A short film screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato 2020 and believed to have been directed by Georges Méliès.

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

Yet another Lumiere parade shot.

Prince Edward of York, executing the manual of arms, attended by Prince Albert, and Princess Victoria, of York.

A magician presents a circular piece of paper from which he removes the flags of the allies. Then from each flag he produces a soldier from the respec...