1901 Movies

A splendid subject, showing the champion heavyweight of the world, exercising in his training headquarters. After showing his skill in side-stepping,...

Lost short film from Georges Méliès.

In a wizard's cavern, a series of magic tricks are performed..

Lost short comedy film by Georges Méliès

The great geyser at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. c. 1901.

Comedy short film by Georges Méliès.

A high nobleman finds himself in the Temple of the Sun, where he meets Mascarille, who proposes himself as a juggler. After extracting from the noblem...

A short film depicting a dramatized scene from the Boer War, produced by the Lancashire company Mitchell and Kenyon. The film portrays the rescue of t...

Mephistopholes causes an artist's model to disappear.

Short film about the South African politician Paul Kruger

Original President McKinley Inauguration Footage from 1901.

This is an extraordinary window on to the heart of cosmopolitan Shanghai, over a hundred years ago, featuring a Nanjing Road bustling with crowds of C...

Mitchell and Kenyon's gorgeous film of Dumfries schoolchildren. The filmmaking duo specialized in filming crowds and then encouraging them to come and...

Willie puts a pack of firecrackers in the flour which Nora is preparing for her dough. A policeman comes in and is entertained by Nora. Willie in the...

Documentary filmed by Fructuoso Gelabert at the Spanish coast.

Likely a popular routine from Percy Honri's musical theatre show. His face is seen poking through a blackout curtain, made up as the man in the moon....

In this picture we show the largest pigeon farm in the world, consisting of hundreds of pigeon houses of all sizes. One of the attendants at the farm...

Women getting on and riding Tehran-Rey railway tram.

This film that is recorded on the roof of Golestan Palace, shows Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar and the rest of palace residents walking and looking far a...