Most Viewed Year 1900 - 15

Woman dances with fan

Guy with a Handkerchief

Man plays piano

Woman sings.

A couple of clowns try to ride a pennyfarthing around a stage, while fighting.

This British Bioscope short from 1900 is a crackerjack piece, on an order with 1903's FIREBOAT 'NEW YORKER' ANSWERING AN ALARM. It's little more than...

Produced by Casa Lepage, it is the first appearance of tango in the cinema, as it contains brief scenes in which the dancer El Negro Agapito...

Two comedians are washing at basins. One covers himself in white soap lather, but slyly gives blacking to his fellow, who applies vigorously.

On a stage in front of a painted backdrop representing a park, Blanche and Louise Mante, one dressed in a man "Incroyable" suit from the 1st Empire...

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....

Southampton High Street, train view

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

Cavalry cross the river in enormous number. Occasionally a horse stops to take a drink, and then walks on.

New Zealand's oldest surviving film shows a troop of horsemen from the Boer War Second Contingent in camp at one of the open days held before their...

A black and white silent film with a descriptive title.

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

Naval ratings pulling along naval guns during the Boer War.

Silent record of a performance by Joseph Pujol. He was famous for his remarkable control of the abdominal muscles, which enabled him to seemingly...