Most Viewed Year 1900 - 19

Lumière short on the 1900 World's Fair

A beautiful young blonde woman in scanty attire is seen reclining in the center of a set of a spider web. A well-dressed young man passes in front of...

The President of Brasil visit Buenos Aires.

Footage of a parade party in the Netherlands.

Early film adaptation of The Prodigal Son.

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

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...

1900 Gaumont version of the ubiquitous Serpentine dance, this one hand tinted. Filmmaker anonymous. (not to be mistaken with Alice...

A spy is executed by firing squad.

This scene is laid on a tropical shore. A pickaninny is fishing, when a huge alligator creeps up upon him and swallows him. The old father, who has...

School is over for the day. A stationary camera is trained on the door of the high school at the top of a few stairs. A man and small boy emerge,...

A white actor in blackface steals a chicken and hides in a coal bin. A policeman looks in the coal bin, sits on the lid and calls for help. The man...

Gen. Frederick D. Grant, and Gen. A.S. Burt returning from Mt. Ariat, at the head of the famous 25th Infantry, colored.

A splendid scene, showing a large number of curious Filipino boats being worked on the Pasig River near Manila by natives. The picture is unusually...

Inauguration of the Expo.

Throngs of men in top hats walk past the camera.

Two delinquent clerks are seated in a broker's office engaged in a game of cards. The boss suddenly appears walking through the corridor. The cards...

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...

AN UNEXPECTED BATH" shows the astronomer watching women rain down from the heavens.