Most Viewed Year 1900 - 6

An elderly gentleman in a silk hat sits on a stool in front of a store on the main street of town. He has a telescope that focuses on the ankle of a...

Four mountaineers descend a snow-covered mountain.

A former carpenter who became one of the first cameramen in Japanese cinema history, Tsuchiya Tsuneji travelled to North America to help in the...

The movie consists solely of a saber fight. Bernhardt plays a cross-gender Hamlet, and Pierre Magnier is her fellow duelist, Laertes. A few...

Filmed in July 1900, on the Champs Elysées in Paris, France.

Pedestrians and cars traffic in Biarritz.

The Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre was a special pavilion at the 1900 Paris World's Fair which featured filmed performances presented with...

A client has trouble listening to the photographer's instructions.

Characters from a large magic book come to life.

James White, the Edison Company's main filmmaker at the time, realized a burst of creativity during his visit to the 1900 Paris Exposition. It's...

Single shot of a column of Gordon Highlanders marching out of their camp at Ladysmith to meet General Buller's relief column.

Recovering from a severe illness (likely typhoid), W.K.L. Dickson received word from London that the audience's enthusiasm for the military was...

A man takes off his clothes in preparation for bed, only for new clothes to spontaneously generate, leading to comical consternation.

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...