Most Viewed Year 1900 - 8

Comic scenes taken at the Nouveau-Cirque by the two famous clowns Foottit and Chocolat. To separate Foottit and Chocolat who are fighting, their...

Two cooks fight, one pushing the other into a barrel and pouring a saucepan of liquid over his head. 10 second fragment available in flipbook format,...

Here we have a mixed company of Gordon Highlanders, Irish Fusilliers and English Lancers, as a group of prisoners taken to the rear by a troop of...

A Thomas Edison film showing a torpedo being shot.

Reenactment of a South African battle.

Chinese passengers make their way down the wharf. Two chair bearers are soliciting fares, but without any success.

A chimney sweep and a miller become involved in a street fight. The sweep has a bag of soot on his back, and the miller a bag of flour.

A conversation between two gents perks up when the see a picture in a magazine. A 'facial' comedy by GA Smith.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

A decapitated cook wreaks havoc on the restaurant proprietor.

The launching of the ship Varèse in Livourne.

The title pretty much tells you all there is to know about this Edison film. It runs a very brief 27-seconds and shows a torpedo hitting its target...

Only 15 seconds remain of this lost short about the famous garden scene in Romeo and Juliet

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

The picture opens with a crowd of Swiss boys and girls dressed in native costumes, marching down the street in this very unique and picturesque...

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

Pedestrian traffic on a square, somewhere in Tokyo.

Four men each hold a large slice of watermelon, and have a race to see who can finish eating first. All four move quickly, but one man seems to be...

The scene opens in the interior of an artist's studio. Mephisto appears mysteriously and signals the pictures to come to life. They step down from...