Most Viewed Year 1903 - 16

The film begins across the street from some young boys who are lined up against a curbing eating spaghetti or macaroni. The only other action occurs...

Made in 1903, Eccentric Waltz showcases an exhibition by dancers Boldoni and Solinski, residents at the famous Eldorado cabaret in the Boulevard de...

This picture gives a good idea of how soon one of the New York fireboats can be gotten under way after they receive an alarm of fire...

Over a hundred Edwardian athletes gather for a gruelling walking race.

A beautiful panoramic view of lower New York from Barclay Street to Battery Park, showing a beautiful stereoscopic effect of the sky-scrapers in the...

Film taken from a boat heading down the Hudson is shown at varying speeds, often giving a sense of rapid transit.

Inside of a post office.

Edwardian holidaymakers throng to the attractions at Lancashire's premier seaside resort.

Two opium smokers in a bunk bed yank on each other's queues until the bunk crashes, sending them rolling about on the floor.

Two men do a mixed act of high-bar acrobatics and tumbling, knocking each other down and tumbling on and off stage in this short film from Pathe...

Elephant parade organized by Lord Curzon.

This film shows a mechanical ride in an amusement park, designed to allow customers to ride down an undulating incline astride wooden horses. Several...

Single shot panning across a landscape. Edison films, 1903.

Produced by the Charles Urban Trading Company

Pedestrians, horse carts wagons and electric tram cross large open cross roads near Boar Lane, Leeds, Yorkshire.

This short film from the Corrick Collection by the Corrick Family Entertainers features documentary footage taken in Singapore.

Here, on Grand Trunk's main line between Canada and the US, one of Biograph's early production crews rode the pilot of a locomotive from Sarnia,...

This short film, produced in the United Kingdom and France in 1903, showcases a lyrical journey across the Atlantic. Witness an orange-red sunset and...

A number of boys are engaged in a tub race. They are lined up in a row, and the fun begins from the start. Some of the tubs upset and give the boys a...

A man and his wife are seated at a table in their happy New Jersey home. A huge mosquito appears and buzzes about their heads. The man seizes a broom...