You’ll need your sea legs to watch this film, which was apparently filmed from a perilous position on the ship’s mast - in rough seas. This is a...

1900. Two chaps, a Gramophone, and a dog called Nipper. What could possibly go wrong?

Panorama of the Quai de la Seine and the pavilions of the exhibition.

Movement of visitors in front of the Exhibition water tower.

“Same scenery as in the previous view, the sailors embark in the canoes which take them ashore.”

In an arena, a Landes race scene with cows.

British fictional propaganda film on a Boer defeat in the Second Boer War, 27th February 1900

This striking film re-stages an episode from the Matabele wars between African natives and British infantry

Exercises and jumps on parallel bars.

Coolie Boys Diving for Coins positions a scene, popularised in early film generally, within a distinctly colonial context. As with similar films, it...

A Boer throws a bomb into the British Red Cross tent and wounds a nurse.

Variant titles from Biograph production logs indicate that the 15th Infantry was on the way to China. Other sources indicate that the regiment was...

Trains steam past a station.

Lumière short on the 1900 World's Fair

Hepworth title C.I.V. Procession: Cyclists and Infantry, catalogue no. 158 ("In their midst proudly marched a trooper who carried the flag of the...

Early film adaptation of The Prodigal Son.

Footage showing Arab riders.

Horse drawn fire engines en route to an emergency.