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 ...

Excerpts of a 1903 football game between the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan. Includes views of the uniformed players, the ...

An engaged couple, dressed in white, meet each other at a train station. When the train arrives, they get on board, and they enjoy the sights ...

Shows an old house in the background with one window with the shutters closed. A bill poster comes along and puts up a poster advertising a ...

A horse parade.

Firefighter exercises.

Elks champions Cake-Walk.

A pickpocket is caught in the act, and leads the police on a lengthy chase.

The tops of some buildings are visible in the background. The camera was elevated several stories above the ground. In the immediate foreground, ...

Photographed from a one-camera position, as if in the audience, there are four tumblers performing for a crowd of customers in the midway of an ...

A Western cowboy attempts to flirt with a veiled young lady sitting on a bench in the garden…

The Fate of the Artist’s Model (1903) shows a young woman and her baby who are abandoned by her artist lover.

This scene opens with a view of a stage setting and private box. After Miss Dolly Lightfoot has finished a clever dance, a card is placed upon ...

This shows an acrobatic team performing on a revolving flying ring unit suspended between the towers at Luna Park.

“Cholly” wishes to call on his best girl and sends her a large bouquet. To find out if the girl really loves him, he sends a note ...

A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.

This is the first movie version of the famous story. Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket ...

Alone in his room at an inn, a lustful old man is haunted by spirits.

In certain sections of New York City large numbers of Jewish and Italian push-cart vendors congregate so closely along the sidewalks that they ...

Another in a series of films made by American Mutoscope & Biograph in 1903 showing all aspects of the operations of the United States postal ...

A circus ring located outdoors next to the pavilion at Luna Park is shown. Two performers work with a large circus horse, doing acrobatics on and ...

A pretty domestic scene showing the proud father, with the assistance of the nurse and doctor, tying the little one in a towel and weighing it ...

An early Pathé version of Don Quixote told in 15 chapters.

Photographed from a single camera position above the heads of the crowds watching a parade, the film shows several different chapters of the ...

Taken at St. John’s Home, Coney Island. A large number of boys are bathing in the surf. At a signal the boys leave the water and walk ...

At school in Brienne. On the bridge of Arcole. The campaign in Egypt. Passage of the St. Bernard Pass. Garden party in Malmaison.

A short film from Peter Elfelt showing Dagmar Hansen.

Images of a hunting party with the Swedish King Oscar II, Prince Christian, Prince Gustav, Prince Valdemar and Prince Georg. Hveen is an island ...

In the next scene all that is left of the cabin is a smoldering ruin. A company of trappers come rapidly out of the forest and discover the ...

Film of a royal visit to Ireland, by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. Appears on the BFI DVD “A Royal Occasion”