Most Viewed Year 1901 - 4

In a bakery in the French countryside, Father Latourte, his wife, and their staff are busy with customers, pastries, and baked goods of all kinds....

Here we present a picture that simply convulses an audience with laughter. The scene opens in the bedroom of a hotel. A traveler appears, evidently a...

The scene opens showing Reuben and his best girl looking for a quiet place to spoon. A photographer enters and suggests taking their pictures.

A daredevil rides his bicycle down a ramp and attempts to land in a pool of water as a crowd of spectators watches.

On 28 January 1901 the great musician Giuseppe Verdi died from the consequences of a stroke that had struck him six days earlier. These very rare...

In 1953, in an old cabinet of a former photographer from Zermatt, a first mountaineering film was found. It was a silent film from the first era...

President McKinley Inauguration

A short documentary registering the meeting between two aviation pioneers: the Brazilian Santos Dumont and the Briton Charles Rolls. In it, Dumont...

Footage from the dawn of film taken by Mitchell and Kenyon in North England, 1901.

Here we see one of the methods employed in the search for gold, where water is scarce. We see the workmen using the water over and over again in the...

A jovial looking man is seated nearest the window of a restaurant. He has just finished his meal and the waiter brings a glass of beer, and when he...

A conjurer vanishes animals then vanishes himself.

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...

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

A most interesting picture at the Pan-American Exposition. The picture was taken from the north side of the Electric Tower. It presents the most...

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.

These three scenes were inspired from a comedy in four acts of the same name by Edmond Audran, performed for the first time at the...