The best movies 1901 Pagina 10

Close view of legs and feet passing a basement window.

A short film depicting a dramatized scene from the Boer War, produced by the Lancashire company Mitchell and Kenyon. The film portrays the rescue of...

A diver jumps into a body of water-- and then comes right back out! This film should not be confused with Ferdinand Zecca's own remake of the same...

Here we see one of the methods employed in the search for gold, where water is scarce. We see the workmen using the water over and over again in the...

In a wizard's cavern, a series of magic tricks are performed..

In this picture we show President Roosevelt and Cabinet standing at the station with bare heads, while the casket of President McKinley is being...

An allegory film based on the familiar painting 'Rock of Ages' by Johannes Adam Simon Oertel. The film is a superimposition of a 1896 film, "Upper...

Lost short comedy film by Georges Méliès

On 28 January 1901 the great musician Giuseppe Verdi died from the consequences of a stroke that had struck him six days earlier. These very rare...

This film recreates the arrest of Thomas Goudie, a bank employee who embezzled £170,000 to pay gambling debts, using the real locations. It...

The famous acrobats in the above title appear in a marvellous acrobatic act. There are three barrels arranged on the stage. The boys, blindfolded,...

This film is difficult to classify. It opens on a scene showing a mourner with bowed head sitting in front of what appears to be a tombstone. Shortly...

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

“One of the principal features at the Pan-American Exposition is the Alaskan or Esquimaux Village. In this most interesting exhibit, scenes are...

An Edwardian football match at Newcastle's St James' Park ground.

Another fine picture of the champion going through his side-stepping tactics which have made him famous. The picture ends with a wrestling bout with...

Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry.

Carrie Nation and her Hatchet Brigade demolish a Kansas saloon. Bottles fly, beer kegs roll in all directions, and the bartender is flung into the...

In a recreation of the celebrated painting An Affair of Honor by Emile-Antoine Bayard, several young women are drinking at a restaurant. One is...

A satire on the way that audiences unaccustomed to the cinema didn't know how to react to the moving images on a screen - in this film, an...

A companion picture to No. 1964 ('Cutting Sugar Cane' (1901) (q.v.)), and equally interesting. Honolulu, Hawaii.

This wonderful dog "Mannie," owned by the vaudeville star, Miss Laura Comstock, is a most learned animal. He has been trained to perform all sorts of...