1900 Movies

Recovering from a severe illness (likely typhoid),W.K.L. Dickson received word from London that the audience's enthusiasm for the military was lessen...

Studies on human pathological locomotion.

An actuality film of the 1900 Paris Exhibition, shot from a boat travelling down the Seine.

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

A series of short motion-studies of athletes for the 1900 Olympics in Paris.

Traditional dance to a flute tune.

Elaborate floats and costumes parading the streets of Nice.

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

A man exchanges shoe blacking for his friend's soap.

Photographed February 5, 1900.

There's an organ grinder on the stage, standing in front of a backdrop that's supposed to look like the street. Some young women come up and do a high...

Footage from the Boer War.

A succession of British soldiers are carried up a gangplank by stretcher-bearers from the quayside to a hospital ship at Durban; walking casualties ma...

A succession of British soldiers are carried up a gangplank by stretcher-bearers from the quayside to a hospital ship at Durban; walking casualties ma...

Ground level view of a column of Australian cavalry riding down Adderley Street in Cape Town watched by enthusiastic crowds.

Newly-arrived British troops march away from the jetty towards a square and are surrounded by the waiting crowds.

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...

The approach to a cantilever bridge is shown. The camera is on the front of the car traveling over the rails. The car crosses the cantilever bridge, m...