The best movies 1901 Pagina 13

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

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

This is a news actuality film of the former Commander in Chief of the Boer War, Lord Roberts, visiting Manchester to much hoopla.

A snow covered slope with narrow trail is seen in the foreground of this picture. In the distance, some figures are seen approaching. As they draw...

The champion lady boxers of the world. Shows two female pugilists who are really clever. They engage in a hot one-round sparring bout. A park, with...

The wife gets up, runs to the clock and seeing the time, hurriedly awakens her husband. They will miss the train. In their hurry they cannot find...

Did he bowl or did he throw? A fascinating record of an early cricketing controversy.

The might of the British Navy struts its stuff down the Manchester Ship Canal.

Edwardian cycling competition.

Stage star Anna Held (1872-1918) riffs on her once-famous scene from the comedy Papa's Wife (1899-1901) featuring a naif getting tipsy on her first...

An artist draws the head of a pretty girl, takes the drawing off the paper and places it on a small table, turning the image into the head of a real...

Silent short film portraying photographer Pedro Sanquirico.

The camera was positioned on the edge of a large public swimming pool. Many children jump in the water from the edge of the pool opposite the camera...

A man tries to shoot himself but drinks whisky instead. Edison would remake this film in 1902 twice as The Burlesque Suicide.

A less-than-serious Leeds team take a four-goals-and-two-tries battering from Hunslet.

This subject is in three scenes, showing beautiful dissolving effects. Scene 3. The Man Behind that Teacup shows Admiral Sampson the centre of...

A short film focusing on the renovation of a Parsi fire temple. It reflects Bhatavdekar's interest in documenting cultural and religious practices.

George Albert Smith and Charles Urban snaffled the plum job of travelling to Italy to take a series of views of Italy for the Warwick Trading...

The evolution of Rugby League in a top of the table match between rival Lancashire clubs.

Lost film by Georges Méliès, released as an "artistic subject."

Here the yachts are both sailing under a twenty-knot breeze, and the effect is most beautiful as they turn the stake, the Shamrock leading by...