1900 Movies

Tracking shot across a bay showing a large number of fishing boats.

A man attempts to shave with a blunt razor.

A gardener is watering a garden. A prankster stands on his hose halting the flow until he looks at the nozzle and gets a stream of water to the face....

A moving tour through lively turn-of-the-century Southampton.

Shots of the panorama, filmed from the winding railroad tracks that stretch along the coast, from Beaulieu to Monaco, including tunnel passages.

A short skit in which vaudeville duo Foottit and Chocolat reenact the Wilhelm Tell routine.

Footage from the dawn of film taken in Belle Époque-era Paris, France from 1896-1900.

Filming of a character sketch by the well-known vaudevillian Charles E. Grapewin. On a bare stage backed by a dark curtain, a man dressed in a three-p...

Comic scenes taken at the Nouveau-Cirque by the two famous clowns Foottit and Chocolat. During a battle between Foottit and Chocolat, the latter, who...

Two Chinese men (in full regalia) and an American-style tough are sitting at a table, eating out of bowls, all of them using chop sticks; The American...

The plot outlines the story of the early Christian martyrs with a compendium of horrors such as maulings at the Colosseum, crucifixions, beheadings, s...

A man shaves, back to the camera, face reflected in a mirror.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

Filmed in July 1900, on the Champs Elysées in Paris, France.

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

The scene opens in the interior of an artist's studio. Mephisto appears mysteriously and signals the pictures to come to life. They step down from the...

Vesuvius erupts and people escape from a room as the ceiling falls.

A legless beggar with a sign around his neck saying "cripple" pushes himself slowly and laboriously on a trolley along the pavement, soliciting alms f...

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