Most Viewed Year 1901 - 7

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

A young man's telephone call to his sweetheart is intercepted by her father, who beats him with his umbrella.

Passengers and crew boarding the SS Saxonia.

A political quarrel between two men that ends in laughter.

In this picture we show President Roosevelt and Cabinet standing at the station with bare heads, while the casket of President McKinley is being...

Early footage of the Lucania passenger liner.

Using a blue tint to set the scene under the sea, this is a short, surprisingly violent film where two divers fight to the death with axes over some...

Female graduates and gents sporting spectacular Edwardian whiskers take part in Birmingham’s first Degree Day ceremony.

A camera sits on top of a moving train, providing a panoramic view of Ealing (western London) as the train moves.

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

The annual championship meeting of England's premier athletics association.

Edwardian cycling competition.

This is an extraordinary window on to the heart of cosmopolitan Shanghai, over a hundred years ago, featuring a Nanjing Road bustling with crowds of...

Shows a tramp asleep. Two mischievous boys appear on roller skates. One removes his skates and they strap them to the feet of "Weary Willie." They...

The scene opens showing Reuben and his best girl looking for a quiet place to spoon. A photographer enters and suggests taking their pictures.

Lost short comedy film by Georges Méliès

A jovial looking man is seated nearest the window of a restaurant. He has just finished his meal and the waiter brings a glass of beer, and when he...

On 28 January 1901 the great musician Giuseppe Verdi died from the consequences of a stroke that had struck him six days earlier. These very rare...

Here we see one of the methods employed in the search for gold, where water is scarce. We see the workmen using the water over and over again in the...

An artist draws the head of a pretty girl, takes the drawing off the paper and places it on a small table, turning the image into the head of a real...