The best movies 1900 Pagina 16

A woman in ballet slippers wearing a large white hat and a long white dress - with ruffles, puffy sleeves and petticoats - dances across water with...

Using photographs and films shot by a French Consul, Auguste François, in turn-of-the-century China, documents the historic events and everyday...

Photographed February 5, 1900.

Recording of the dance Mesdemoiselles Lally and Juliette from the Olympia.

A short film

Shot just a few days after the relief of Mafeking, this film captures the progress of British military personnel across the Vaal River in South...

The plot outlines the story of the early Christian martyrs with a compendium of horrors such as maulings at the Colosseum, crucifixions, beheadings,...

The parade of carriages, costumed riders, and exotic animals passing over the bridge at Inverness, Scotland, has attracted a crowd, despite the rain.

A highland fling

Studies on human pathological locomotion.

A dramatic scene - and exactly what moving pictures were invented for. With a fixed camera and without a traditional narrative, this film...

A huge fly is bothering an old gentleman, who is trying to take a nap. The old gentleman, after standing the torment as long as he can, jumps up and...

Two sets of images are superimposed. From the side, we see a two-masted ship. Across the deck walks a skeleton. It sits down, its legs akimbo. The...

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

Shots of waves crashing upon rocks just out of frame.

Spanish lost film about the Valencian carnival directed by Ángel García Cardona.

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

Early film adaptation of The Prodigal Son.

A combination of the picture entitled "The Ballet of the Ghosts," and a surf scene; the resulting effect being that the ghostly figures rise up out...