People riding on a moving platform / walkway.

Two sets of images are superimposed. From the side, we see a two-masted ship. Across the deck walks a skeleton. It sits down, its legs akimbo. The...

A woman in ballet slippers wearing a large white hat and a long white dress - with ruffles, puffy sleeves and petticoats - dances across water with...

A dancer personifying Winter, dances in the snow.

An old spinster receives an unexpected Valentine's letter.

A performance with sound from comedian Jules Moy.

Brazilian President Manuel Ferraz de Campos Salles visits Argentina in 1900.

TRICK. Two bathers arrive at a river, disrobe at the water's edge and dive in. The action is then reversed and the men are seen leaving the water...

It is worthy of note that the film can be watched in a shorter amount of time than it takes to to say the film's title.

A prince gets the help of a fairy to aid in his conflict with a wizard.

Sailors row a whaling boat in a medium-tight shot.

The single camera position is from the top of a building identified as the Trocadero Palace; The camera is pointed toward the Eiffel Tower. The film...

Filming of a character sketch by the well-known vaudevillian Charles E. Grapewin. On a bare stage backed by a dark curtain, a man dressed in a...

While our photographers were crossing the Atlantic Ocean a most wonderful and sensational picture was secured, showing a storm at sea. The picture...

Taken from an automobile. This picture was taken during the fashionable driving hour, making a complete circle of the Place de la Concorde, passing...

Reenactment of a South African battle.

woman dances

A Victorian vaudeville routine is given the big screen treatment with camera tricks galore.Three characters straight off the vaudeville stage - the...

Man and woman dance.

Shots of waves crashing upon rocks just out of frame.

A single shot of a fleet of warships at sea, with a sunset sky superimposed from another sequence to complete the effect.

This film is part of the Mitchell and Kenyon collection - an amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth...

Singing "La Chanson du tambour-major"

This panoramic scene is taken from a Seine steamboat and gives a rapid view of the banks of the river...

A combination of the picture entitled "The Ballet of the Ghosts," and a surf scene; the resulting effect being that the ghostly figures rise up out...

This picture shows thousands of people leaving their seats in the grand stand and going across the parade grounds toward Paris. A very sharp and...

This picture shows the young cadets going through their daily exercises and drill, and is full of life, and photographically perfect.

The scene opens by showing the village girls driving home a herd of cows, and shows the native peasantry of Switzerland returning from their daily...

The magic of a real solar eclipse filmed on 28 May, 1900 by a famous magician, Nevil Maskelyne, while on an expedition by The British Astronomical...

One of Alberto Santos Dumont's dirigibles is led out of a hangar.

This scene is laid in the parlor of a New York tenement. Two watchers at the wake are smoking and drinking, while the widow is weeping over the...

Showing the attacking forces drawn up in line of battle. They immediately commence firing on the shore batteries. The batteries return the fire with...

Walter Gibbons was one of Britain's most forward-thinking film entrepreneurs, and deeply entranced by the music hall. In 1900 he launched his 'phono...

The famous Madison Square Garden forms the background of this excellent picture. A number of very fine automobiles pass in this strip, coming close...

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

Two Chinese men (in full regalia) and an American-style tough are sitting at a table, eating out of bowls, all of them using chop sticks; The...

This short film, along with other experimental sound films, is thought to have been recorded for the Paris 'Exposition Universelle' of 1900.