The best movies 1903 Pagina 8

Two comic characters, Jack Jags and Dum Dum, perform slapstick comedy on stage.

A filmed record of a fan dancer performing a dance using two white sheets suspended from poles which she frantically twirls around herself to create...

"This shows the flock of goats being brought home -or rather following the shepherds home from the hillside Then the milking of the goats In the...

A crowd of a hundred boys rushing the position of another crowd, storming their adversaries with volleys of snowballs, finally driving the enemy from...

The second film in the series shows the same girl in a brisk calisthenic exercise.

Jesus is brought before him again, Pontius Pilate washes his hands to show that he has no responsibility in the death of this man and hands him over...

As scene as pleasing as incomprehensible. A juggler summons two chairs, which come to the stage jumping and twirling around. Across the back of these...

Taken from the front of a descending car, the track and the way in which the fertile valleys open out on either side, with the huge snow-capped...

The chief event of the day at Grimsel Hospice.

The scene is similar to that seen at Coney Island, where a number of shows are constantly going on.

Beelzebub, making fire on the tips of his fingers, develops a large blaze, from which three girls emerge, who commence a dance in the heart of the...

In a public place in Constantinople at the corner of a bazaar, the executioner is seated upon a stone and is resting from his daily labors while...

A traveller is shown to a room in an inn. After a brief dispute with the hostess and a porter, he is left to himself. But strange things begin to...

This interesting picture was taken just after the great fire on November 1, 1903. It shows the ruins of the entire upper and lower portion of the...

Showing two typical concert hall knock-about teams in a very poor performance. It ends up in their being egged by the audience.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Tourists leaving the Bear Hotel, Kandersteg, to cross the Gemmi. Many ladies of the party are seen mounting the hardy ponies at the hotel front, and,...

It seems as if there was no subject so mundane or seedy that it was considered unworthy of filming by Edison and his contemporaries at the turn of...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

We have just received from our operators accompanying President Roosevelt on his great tour of the Pacific Coast, a splendid series of films covering...

There must have been millions of subjects for Edison's filmmakers to point there cameras at back in 1903 so why on earth they thought that the...