The best movies 1901 Pagina 6

Persons who have visited the "Hub," no doubt carried away with vivid recollections of Boston's famous system of Underground Transportation and this...

A short documentary registering the meeting between two aviation pioneers: the Brazilian Santos Dumont and the Briton Charles Rolls. In it, Dumont...

An old proprietor is startled and haunted by the strange happenings inside his curiosity shop.

A man, objecting to being filmed, comes closer and closer to the camera lens until his mouth is all we see. Then he opens wide and swallows camera...

This is a great historical event. Our cameras were stationed in the center of the Esplanade looking toward the Main Approach to the Pan-American...

Passengers and crew boarding the SS Saxonia.

Exciting scenes of amateur cycling's 'Race of Champions' at Manchester's Fallowfield track.

“The picture [shows] a number of Esquimaux picking nickels from cracks in a board with their dog whips, in which sport they are very expert. In...

Mephistopholes causes an artist's model to disappear.

The President of France and entourage on a pier's promenade.

A very enthusiastic magician performs several tricks.

A peasant refuses to help a poor old woman to carry a bundle of wood. The old woman transforms to a beautiful fairy seated in a magnificent chariot...

Troops parade past the camera.

Footage from the dawn of film taken by Mitchell and Kenyon in North England, 1901.

In 1901 people in Belfast paid their tram drivers in carrots.

Shot against a painted backdrop of river with town on other bank & mountains behind. Throwing medicine ball while group of men watch, at least one...

On the roof of an ancient palace appear a young Knight and his lady. While they are making love an ugly old witch appears and is rather troublesome....

Stage star Anna Held (1872-1918) riffs on her once-famous scene from the comedy Papa's Wife (1899-1901) featuring a naif getting tipsy on her first...

A short dance film in Pathécolor, also know as stencil colouring. The editing cuts correspond with the dancers' costume changes. More about...

The film shows a parade down Fifth Avenue, New York. In the foreground many children, both black and white, can be seen following alongside the...

A temperance society decries the demon drink on the streets of Edwardian Manchester.