1903 Movies

Buster Brown plays a practical joke on his mother, persuading her to to put her hands into a pan of lobsters, then puts a bunch of them in his father's bed. They made two versions of this gag. One where a lobster is pinching his butt, the other not. This one h...

In a room filled with jugglers' properties of enormous size a prestidigitateur dressed in eccentric costume enters with his assistant. The servant, believing that he would be comfortable in an armchair, sits down in it, but finds that it conceals a bucket of w...

A witch curses a town's well.

A box of valued jewels is placed inside the tomb of Delphi. A thief breaks into the tomb and steals it, but soon the ghost of Delphi appears and puts a curse on him.

Boys play a rough game of leap frog.

Promotional film for color photography.

An Irishman pretends to die in a fight and revives at the wake.

This is a funny one. A clown first enters with an apparently docile donkey. A colored man follows and is assisted by the clown to mount on the donkey's back. He thinks he can manage him but the donkey thinks not, and after vainly trying to throw him off backwa...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

The peculiarity of this waterfall, with its narrow funnel-shaped opening, from which, on to the jagged rocks the torrent dashes, is here portrayed in all its pristine grandeur and beauty.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Kandersteg, the highest mountain village on the Gemmi route is a delightful spot and the center of fine excursions in the mountain regions of the Bluemlisalp. An interesting panorama of pine trees and mountains of the wildly picturesque district of the Bluemli...

This Danish film shows us a young woman doing a dance, which translates to tarantula. According to the brief bio over at the Europa Film Treasures site, this dance was "influenced" by the delirium caused by the bite of a tarantula.

A gentleman is here shown partaking of a little lunch of bread and cheese, and occasionally is seen to glance at his morning paper through a reading glass. He suddenly notices that the cheese is a little out of the ordinary, and examines it with his glass. To...

First part in Napoleon's short film life adaptation, followed by L'Empire (grandeur et décadence). The scenes are: At school in Brienne. On the bridge of Arcole. The campaign in Egypt. Passage of the St. Bernard Pass. Garden party in Malmaison. According to Fe...

A child murderess is led to her execution.

An ignorant teacher beats a pupil and is caned by his new assistant.