Most Viewed Year 1900 - 16

Shot in 1900, the film is of Elizabeth Yates, a trailblazing woman elected Mayor of Onehunga in 1893 – just a few weeks after New Zealand women...

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

Cleveland Fire Department rushes to extinguish a fire as a crowd watches.

Back in Blighty - after fighting in the Boer War, these volunteer soldiers are heading home to London and Middlesex

A magician dressed as Mephistopheles conjures up a variety of people and objects in this short film.

This British Bioscope short from 1900 is a crackerjack piece, on an order with 1903's FIREBOAT 'NEW YORKER' ANSWERING AN ALARM. It's little more than...

Produced by Casa Lepage, it is the first appearance of tango in the cinema, as it contains brief scenes in which the dancer El Negro Agapito...

An explosive bit of early war film. These two exciting snippets were potentially part of a much larger action extravaganza. Originating from Alfred...

Panorama of the quai de la Seine and the foreign pavilions of the Exhibition: Sweden, Monaco, Romania, Spain.

It's what it says on the label: a panoramic shot of East Galveston, right after the Storm of the Century came through, ripping up trees and...

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...

Photographed February 5, 1900.

"A series of admirable living pictures, posed by competent artists, and faithfully representing well-known art masterpieces, notably the works of...

The magic of a real solar eclipse filmed on 28 May, 1900 by a famous magician, Nevil Maskelyne, while on an expedition by The British Astronomical...

Walter Gibbons was one of Britain's most forward-thinking film entrepreneurs, and deeply entranced by the music hall. In 1900 he launched his 'phono...

In China at the turn of the 20th century, there was a rebel group called the Society of the Harmonious Fist, otherwise known as Boxers. They attacked...

Footage showing Arab riders.

Crowds at the entrance to the London Hippodrome await the departure of Sir George White. He emerges in company with Mr Cook, the manager of the...