Most Viewed Year 1900 - 16

Jeanne Chasles dances for the presentation of the Phono-Cinema-Theatre.

Newly-arrived British troops march away from the jetty towards a square and are surrounded by the waiting crowds.

A Skirmish with the Boers Near Kimberley by a Troop of Cavalry Scouts Attached to General French's Column. A staged attack by British troops in South...

The president of South Africa (Transvaal) visits Paris.

Reenactment of a scene from the Boxer Rebellion.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

A train snaking around Chamonix, Switzerland, with a steep Alpine slope inches away from the tracks.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

A spy is executed by firing squad.

This scene is laid on a tropical shore. A pickaninny is fishing, when a huge alligator creeps up upon him and swallows him. The old father, who has...

A dramatic scene - and exactly what moving pictures were invented for. With a fixed camera and without a traditional narrative, this film...

his film was shot in an alley of San Francisco's Chinatown on Saturday, September 15, 1900, at midday. The topography of the site (sloping down to...

Visitors come and go to the thermal springs of Le Mont-Dore. Some are wrapped up in warm garments, some arrive in palanquins.

This panoramic scene is taken from a Seine steamboat and gives a rapid view of the banks of the river...

Two delinquent clerks are seated in a broker's office engaged in a game of cards. The boss suddenly appears walking through the corridor. The cards...

AN UNEXPECTED BATH" shows the astronomer watching women rain down from the heavens.

During the terrific storm all of the light craft along the dock front was lifted out of the water and washed up into the streets, many of them being...

Taken from an automobile. This picture was taken during the fashionable driving hour, making a complete circle of the Place de la Concorde, passing...

Filmed off the coast of Rhode Island, this Edison short takes place on the U.S. torpedo boat Morris as we see some men loading up a torpedo that is...