1903 Movies

In September 1903 the ferry line between Gedser in Denmark and Warnemünde in Germany was opened. The images are from the opening of the route which included King Christian IX, Grand Duke Friedrich-Franz IV of Mecklenburg Schwerin (1882-1945),Crown Prince Fred...

Shot at an unidentified location in New York City, the film shows several pieces of horse-drawn fire vehicles in motion: two hook-and-ladders; two steam pumpers; a rescue wagon. Note the kids hanging on the back of some of the vehicles.

The scene is an excavation pit at an unidentified New York City construction site. A crew of six men can be seen shoveling dirt into a four-wheeled wooden cart. Then a full cart is slowly lifted out of the pit to street level by a steam-powered crane. These ca...

Whilst two furniture removers are hard at work, a young cook's apprentice amuses himself by squirting water at them as they pass with a little pump which had been left in the vestibule by the door porter who has fallen asleep behind the door. The workmen wonde...

It is unnecessary to describe this picture, as the story is well-known to both old and young. We tell the story just as it is written, and temperance lecturers will do well to buy one for the moral it teaches.

Yet another in a vast series of films made by American Mutoscope & Biograph for the United States Postal Service which demonstrated all aspects of the humble postman's job.

A film about workers leaving a factory.

The camera is there on the crowded beach, and curious onlookers stare openly as it pans around them.

Firemen on roof playing hose. Smoke & ladder visible. Pan across ground level of gutted building with some posters visible.

The film opens with a man standing at the brow of a hill looking off to his left as a black man pushing a cart passes behind him in the other direction. The man looks and looks. He stands patiently until, from the right of the screen a mail coach appears.

A curious incident which happens in early summer when the cattle are taken to the high pastures for three months.

Two opium smokers in a bunk bed yank on each other's queues until the bunk crashes, sending them rolling about on the floor.

Several balloons in the sky above New York.

9 ladies dance.

The U.S.S. "Indiana" in action. Filmed by American Mutoscope & Biograph on November 11, 1903 in Glen Island, NY.

This opens with a view of the upper falls and great viaduct of the mountain railway, showing ascending and descending cars, and then a close view of the magnificent upper Reichenbach Falls, which by our operator having secured the picture with our new Rotary-M...

Two comic characters, Jack Jags and Dum Dum, perform slapstick comedy on stage.

A documentary film covering the Delhi Durbar held in 1903 to mark the coronation of King Edward VII. It includes footage of Lord Curzon, the then Viceroy of India, and is one of the earliest examples of Indian documentary filmmaking.

The ride known as Shoot the Chutes was first introduced in 1895 by inventor Captain Paul Boyton at Sea Lion Park, the first enclosed outdoor amusement park in Coney Island. He billed it as "the King of All Amusements." In 1902 he sold the park to a couple of y...

Princess Marie (1865-1909),born Princess of Orléans, great granddaughter of the French King Ludvig-Filip (1773-1850),who was king of France 1830-1848. She was married to Prince Valdemar (1858-1939),son of Christian IX. The princess helped open the royal cou...