The best movies 1901 Pagina 12

Leicester Tigers face Plymouth in this early filmed rugby match, which took place 26 October 1901, at Leicester's Welford Road home. As is customary...

This film is a footage of multiple comedic performances called "Baghal Bazi" in the royal palace for Mozaffar ad-Din Shah. It includes items as Stick...

Girl gives spoonful of milk to kitten. (Cut-in close-up) [The British Film Catalogue]

The stage of a vaudeville theatre. A lady in evening costume is performing on a trapeze. Two Rubes are seated in a box. The lady begins to disrobe,...

Special effects film with a train double exposed on the negative, creating a ghostly image.

A few days before the Christmas holiday, a large family decides to put on a home-made play as part of their holiday together. The mother writes the...

Willie puts a pack of firecrackers in the flour which Nora is preparing for her dough. A policeman comes in and is entertained by Nora. Willie in the...

A pretty and natural picture in which the principal actors are two tiny tots who are evidently not a bit afraid of the briny deep as they splash...

A young man's telephone call to his sweetheart is intercepted by her father, who beats him with his umbrella.

This is an extraordinary window on to the heart of cosmopolitan Shanghai, over a hundred years ago, featuring a Nanjing Road bustling with crowds of...

A very short, simple trick film with some pool divers in reverse.

A man walks down to the water's edge, takes off his clothes and prepares to go for a swim.... only to find himself fully clothed. This happens again...

Outside a fairground cinematograph in Edwardian Lancashire.

Larking about during Church Lads' Brigade drill and parade in Morecambe.

A large group of boys play hockey. One of the boys has only one leg, but with the help of a crutch, skates about and puts up a very successful game.

This clip shows part of the official parade for the Inauguration of the Commonwealth on 1 January 1901 as it passes through the temporary gate built...

Edwardian workers react to the camera at one of Rotherham's major employers.

A Country school room is first seen in this picture in which so many startling changes take place that the Master is bewildered and is driven mad by...

Three little chimney-sweepers fall down at the door of a farmhouse exhausted with fatigue and cold when the snow is falling. The most courageous of...

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

An opium smoker intoxicated by this poison, falls asleep and dreams that he is in prison.