The best movies 1901 Pagina 18

An extraordinary window on to the heart of cosmopolitan Shanghai over a hundred years ago - a true melting pot of cultures. Today the city's main...

People ice skating.

A fishing boat is unloaded and the fish are sorted.

Before the rise of trade unions and the arrival of the welfare state, membership of a mutual Friendly Society, such as the Oddfellows, provided some...

Some factories are so much the centre of their town that they begin to define it. 'Pilks' wasn't yet the industrial giant it would become, but it was...

A crowd of young boys scampers past, mildly shepherded by female teachers. Some more tightly marshalled older groups follow behind, while pairs of...

Nearly a century after Nelson's famous victory, the British were still celebrating his achievements and by extension the British Navy, which had...

This film captures both the build-up and the impressive parade itself, involving a brass band and then a lengthy march-past of what must surely have...

Filmed from the front of a tram, this is a fine example of the popular early film form known as a 'phantom ride', shot from a moving vehicle to give...

Six scantily dressed women chat while freshening up. At the instigation of one of them, all get up and perform a brief choreography. This short,...

This picture was taken from the Court of Fountains. Here we present a view of the Exposition grounds as the visitor would see them while standing at...

Another Edison short filmed at the Pan-American Exposition is pretty much the same film as ESQUIMAUX GAME OF SNAP-THE-WHIP with the only difference...

A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.

Edwardian crowds enjoy a fancy-dress swimming race.

Girls gut herring on the quay at North Shields while a Showman tries to stir up trouble.

A lost film.