Most Viewed Year 1900 - 4

Considered the first motion picture to employ both color and sound, the only film record ever made of the original star of Rostand's famous play...

A group of tambours and dancers in traditional outfits pass the camera.

A girl in a Sevillian dress dances to the sound of music played a couple of men at the "Féria Sevillanos" [sic] during the Exposition...

A man attempts to shave with a blunt razor.

Comic scenes taken at the Nouveau-Cirque by the two famous clowns Foottit and Chocolat. To separate Foottit and Chocolat who are fighting, their...

Trick film. A stage magician transforms a woman into a butterfly and himself into a giant bat. This film is considered lost.

Beginning with the camera pointing toward the Invalides entrance, with the tomb of Napoleon in the background. The camera is slowly revolved until it...

Near the main entrance. Hundreds of carriages and characteristic Parisian busses are passing.

This film is part of the Mitchell and Kenyon collection - an amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth...

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

Footage from the dawn of film taken in Belle Époque-era Paris, France from 1896-1900.

Traditional dance to a flute tune.

A Thomas Edison film showing a torpedo being shot.

A landlady is taunted by neighborhood kids.

A dancer personifying Winter, dances in the snow.

Near the center of this scene we see the regimental surgeon directing the movements of the Ambulance Corps. Tenderly they pick up the unfortunates...

The Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre was a special pavilion at the 1900 Paris World's Fair which featured filmed performances presented with...

An early short with a self-explanatory title.

Kathryn Osterman, the well-known vaudeville comedienne, in a complete exposition of the methods of "making-up" the face for the stage. She shows the...

A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.