All Films

Living Sculptures: Film Study for Screen Artist

1903 • 4 min • Germany

A nude couple pose in an art studio on a square rug, while the camera does a circular traveling around them; the woman has her right knee on the floor and her right arm raised in front of her face, holding the man's thighs with her right, while the man is bent forward, as if looking in the distance.

Egyptian Fakir with Dancing Monkey

1903 • 1 min • United States of America

The fakir with his trick monkey is seated on the pavement in a street in Cairo. He plays a tom-tom, while the monkey dances the couchee-couchee. The movements of the monkey are very comical. (Taken on the winter cruise of the S. S. "Auguste Victoria" of the Hamburg-American Line, leaving New York on 03 Feb 1903.)

How Tommy Got a Pull on His Grandpa

1903 • 2 min • United States of America

In this short film, a white piece of wall bisects the screen; There are two different rooms on either side of the dividing line, but one hilarious payoff.

Bradford City v Gainsborough Trinity

1903 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Bradford City's first ever home league game after switching from rugby league football to association football in 1903.

The Pickpocket - A Chase Through London

1903 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A pickpocket is caught in the act, and leads the police on a lengthy chase.

Pres. Roosevelt at the Dedication Ceremonies, St. Louis Exposition

1903 • 1 min

On April 30, 1903, one hundred years to the day after the signing in Paris of the Louisiana Purchase agreement, President Theodore Roosevelt is in St Louis, Missouri, to dedicate the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, which did not open until one year later. In this brief and choppy film, Roosevelt is visible in the center of the front row of a grandstand, which may also be the speaker's platform. He sits, talks to a neighbor, stands as if to salute the crowd, and seems to sit again. He keeps his right hand on the brim of his top hat. Meanwhile, open carriages go in front of the grandstand and stop.

Native Women Coaling a Ship and Scrambling for Money (West Indies)

1903 • 3 min

Panoramic view of the coal docks with a ship in the background. Shows tourists throwing money on the dock, and a large crowd of men and women fighting like made for it. Shows between 200 and 300 women coaling a ship. (Taken on the midwinter cruise of the S.S. "Prinzessin Victoria Luise" of the Hamburg-American Line.)

Native Woman Washing a Negro Baby in Nassau, B.I.

1903 • 3 min • United States of America

A negro woman is washing her three-year-old baby in a tub of water. The child seems to enjoy it until he gets some soapsuds in his eyes, when he makes some very comical facial expressions. Background shows a typical native yard and hut.

The Forbidden City, Pekin

1903 • 1 min • United States of America

Panoramic view of the Forbidden City (Imperial Palace), Peking, China.

The Runaway Match, or Marriage by Motor

1903 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A couple elopes; Her father pursues via motorcar.

Outcast and Bride

1903 • 2 min • United States of America

Siegmund Lubin's 1903 film survives and is the only vestige of Lubin's myriad attempts at coordinating sound and film extant today. With words by Howard Wall and music by Allen May, the song was published in Philadelphia by Joseph Morris. The morality tale of two friends, Kate and Alice, was a perfect vehicle for an illustrated song. Shot in Lubin's glass-enclosed studio atop 912 Arch Street, the film was originally 250 feet. The surviving footage at the Library of Congress contains six shots utilizing four different sets but seems to be missing footage.

Carriers Leaving Building, U.S.P.O.

1903 • 1 min • United States of America

A group of carriers leaving a building.

Sarnia Tunnel, Grand Trunk Railway

1903 • 2 min • United States of America

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, Ontario to Port Huron, MI. The film features a view of the illuminated interior of Sarnia's St. Clair Tunnel and a lap dissolve which fades into the exit of the tunnel-- An impressive technique still in its infancy.

Startling Pursuit

1903 • 1 min • France

A man rides a bike into the water and two officers tries to help him.

Kaiserbesuch in Braunau

1903 • 3 min • Austria

India by Elephant: Delhi Durbar

1903 • 1 min

Elephant parade organized by Lord Curzon.

The Unappreciated Joke

1903 • 1 min • United States of America

Scene, interior of a street-car. A stout man enters and sits down alongside of a friend and proceeds to read a comic paper. He shows a joke in the paper to his friend, and the both laugh heartily. The friend leaves the car, and his absence is not noted by the stout man. An elderly matron takes the seat. Without looking up the stout man shoves the paper in front of the face of the old lady, thinking his friend is still there.

From Show Girl to Burlesque Queen

1903 • 1 min • United States of America

The film opens on a dressing room set with a mirror, dressing table, and chair center stage and a folded dressing screen on the left. A smiling, dark-haired woman enters through the door on stage right, unbuttoning a full-length polka-dot costume. As she undresses, she frequently looks directly at the camera and smiles. She removes her sash or cummerbund, the top with its trailing sleeves, and her skirt, leaving her clothed only in a sleeveless chemise. Smiling directly at the camera, she mischievously slips a strap of the garment off one shoulder, then ducks behind the screen.

Opening of New East River Bridge, New York

1903 • 4 min

Shows ceremonies and Mayor Low accepting the new bridge in behalf of Greater New York.

Seeing New York by Yacht

1903 • 3 min • United States of America

Seeing New York by Yacht.

Artillery at Jægerspris

1903 • 1 min • Denmark

Military in action.

President Reviewing School Children

1903 • 1 min

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

Northern Union Challenge Cup Final: Halifax v. Salford

1903 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Turn of the century rugby league.

The Great City Fire

1903 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Firemen are awakened by an alarm, drive through London and rescue fire victims.