Most Viewed Year 1900 - 8

A trio of prankish boarders wreak havoc on their landlady and an intervening policeman.

This scene opens by showing a pretty cook mixing bread in the kitchen. Jones comes in unexpectedly from a trip and carries a dress suitcase. He...

A short film screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato 2020 and believed to have been directed by Georges Méliès.

Here is another view on the Bund, with The Garden on the left, with its high arched conservatory. As in the former scene, the peculiar wheelbarrows...

Christine Kerf as the Greek muse Terpsichore, in 1900.

A ballet teacher trains a invisible group of dancers and gets angry about their incompetence. Early film with sound.

Pedestrian traffic on a square, somewhere in Tokyo.

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

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

A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.

In this picture some very remarkable effects are obtained by the reversal of the motion of the negative. A man comes home, somewhat under the...

"A series of admirable living pictures, posed by competent artists, and faithfully representing well-known art masterpieces, notably the works of...

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

Shots of the panorama, filmed from the winding railroad tracks that stretch along the coast, from Beaulieu to Monaco, including tunnel passages.

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,...

A review of the Republican Guard and firemen at Longchamp filmed by the Lumière brothers.