1900 Movies

The scene opens by showing the village girls driving home a herd of cows, and shows the native peasantry of Switzerland returning from their daily occupation watching the herds. After driving the cattle to their shelter, the boys and girls congregate in front...

A man and a child are washing a small dog in a tub, while a large dog is circling around them, barking.

A woman climbs out of bed and lifts her nightdress to search for a flea. Reconstructed from a late 1800s flip book

Recovering from a severe illness (likely typhoid),W.K.L. Dickson received word from London that the audience's enthusiasm for the military was lessening. He sent back this celebration of the expanding empire in response, capturing the annexation ceremony of 2...

The entire story of Christmastide is here depicted. The scene opens in a large boudoir of an apparently wealthy man's home. His children, assisted by their governess, are about to retire. Before lying down they hang up their stockings on the edge of the bed. T...

A group of people exiting an enormous carriage.

A ballet teacher trains a invisible group of dancers and gets angry about their incompetence. Early film with sound.

A short clip of street life in the French village Chamonix.

A turn-of-the-last-century hand-tinted short, which features two women, Miss Lally and Miss Julyett, dancing at a ball. By the legendary French filmmaker Alice Guy (attributed only, but not confirmed in any primary sources).

Cléopâtre-Diane de Mérode (27 September 1875 - 17 October 1966) was a French dancer of the Belle Époque. She is seen here performing a traditonal Javanese dance.

The 1900 Paris World's Fair as seen from Trocadéro.

Panorama of the Quai de la Seine, Paris, France.

Singing "La Chanson du tambour-major"

Reenactment of a South African battle.

Visit of President Émile Loubet and his entourage. Lumière Catalogue #1153.

The stubborn resistance of the Boers is shown by the activity and persistency with which they fire the two large field pieces immediately in the foreground. It seems, indeed, a hopeless matter to attempt to capture and overthrow such an invulnerable position....

An American Mutscope & Biograph production.