1901 Movies

A female impersonator giggles and flirts. By the following decade, many female impersonators would be shown doing their acts on the stage and in the m...

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

Comedy short film by Georges Méliès.

Single panning shot of the Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta.

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.

The stage of a vaudeville theatre. A lady in evening costume is performing on a trapeze. Two Rubes are seated in a box. The lady begins to disrobe, an...

Passengers and crew boarding the SS Saxonia.

Lost short comedy film by Georges Méliès

Lost short film from Georges Méliès.

A temperance society decries the demon drink on the streets of Edwardian Manchester.

A conjurer vanishes animals then vanishes himself.

In 1953, in an old cabinet of a former photographer from Zermatt, a first mountaineering film was found. It was a silent film from the first era showi...

Mephistopholes causes an artist's model to disappear.

Girl gives spoonful of milk to kitten. (Cut-in close-up) [The British Film Catalogue]

Shows a suburbanite asleep in bed. He discovers he has overslept himself, and jumps out of bed.

An Edwardian football match at Newcastle's St James' Park ground.

Shot against a painted backdrop of river with town on other bank & mountains behind. Throwing medicine ball while group of men watch, at least one bla...

Troops play up for the camera in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle.

James J. Jeffries throwing the medicine ball. An absolutely perfect picture of the champion heavyweight of the world.

Here we show Captain N. P. Nissen, formerly known as Captain Bowser, making a trip through the Whirlpool Rapids in his famous twenty-four foot craft k...