Most Viewed Year 1900 - 5

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair,...

An antisemitic comedy in which two Jewish clothiers cut prices until one buys the other's stock.

Vesuvius erupts and people escape from a room as the ceiling falls.

The original film is considered lost. 11 seconds are preserved here in a flipbook published by French maker Leon Beaulieu between 1897-1901 and...

White’s camera offers several 360-degree pans of views of the fairground, then amazes by tilting up and down the Eiffel Tower, and concludes...

Drama by Walter R. Booth. Survival status unknown.

A view of Dam Square and the Damrak. To the right the 'Beurs van Zocher', the commodity exchange building of architect J.D. Zocher.

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

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

A child borrows his grandmother's magnifying glass to look at a newspaper ad for Bovril, at a watch, and then at a bird. The child shows grandma what...

A family sits down to enjoy a meal that ends up being fraught with complications.

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

Footage from the dawn of film taken in Belle Époque-era Paris, France from 1896-1900.

People riding on a moving platform / walkway.

"Nothing new, but an old thing done over again and done well. Some one has attempted to describe a kiss as "something made of nothing," but this is...

Prince Edward of York, executing the manual of arms with the British flag.

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