All Films

A Jewish Dance at Jerusalem

1903 • 1 min • Palestinian Territory

A group of Jewish men in Jerusalem perform a dance.

Panorama du port d'Alger (suite du précédent)

1903 • 1 min • France

Continuation of the previous one.” [cf. n ° 27] Panorama of the quays and the city.

Chicago-Michigan Football Game

1903 • 6 min • United States of America

Footage of the 1903 football game between the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan, showing uniformed players in action along with views of the spectators in the stadium and surrounding stands. A rare early motion-picture record of American college football. Although Thomas Edison has sometimes been mistakenly named as director, he was never credited as director on any films; the actual director of this short is unknown.

Le Bey de Tunis et les personnages de sa suite descendant l'escalier du Bardo

1903 • 1 min • France

Biskra : une noce indigène

1903 • 1 min

Exotic street scene with men riding camels.

Algiers-Koléa Line: Tunnel of Point Pescade

1903 • 1 min • France

Ligne d’Alger à Koléa : le grand ravin

1903 • 1 min • France

The Melomaniac

1903 • 3 min • France

The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.

Panorama du port d'Alger

1903 • 1 min • France

Panorama of the port of Algiers.

The Magic Lantern

1903 • 5 min • France

Two impish clowns construct a magic lantern. They prop it up at an angle, and use it to project pictures onto a wall. When the picture show ends, they open up the lantern to reveal a group of dancing girls inside - and this is only the first of the indications that this lantern really is magical.

Chicks to Order

1903 • 1 min

Kathryn Osterman breaks egg into a plate. As the content reaches the plate, it transforms into a baby chick. Action repeats twelve times through stop-action photography.

Puss In Boots

1903 • 9 min • France

Early silent adaptation of the fairy-tale Puss In Boots.

Alice in Wonderland

1903 • 9 min • United Kingdom

This is the first movie version of the famous story. Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch. She follows him down a hole and finds herself in a hall of many doors.

The Fate of the Artist's Model

1903 • 3 min • United States of America

The Fate of the Artist's Model (1903) shows a young woman and her baby who are abandoned by her artist lover.

The Dude and the Burglars

1903 • 1 min • United States of America

Two burglars have just entered an elegant-looking home, but before they can proceed, the woman of the house enters the room. One of the burglars seizes her, but then her husband enters and gets her free of the burglar's grasp. But the husband did not notice the second burglar, who now comes to the aid of his partner - and a tense confrontation is about to begin.

Happy Hooligan Interferes

1903 • 1 min • United States of America

An organ-grinder is playing beneath the window of a cranky old woman. She objects strenuously. The organ-grinder, egged on by Hooligan, keeps on playing until a policeman appears.

Orphans in the Surf

1903 • 2 min • United States of America

Taken at St. John's Home, Coney Island. A large number of boys are bathing in the surf. At a signal the boys leave the water and walk toward the camera. A very unique subject.

How Monsieur Takes His Bath

1903 • 1 min • France

A hapless man tries to get undressed only to find himself magically layered in even more clothes.

Captain Deasy's Daring Drive, Ascent

1903 • 1 min • Germany

Filmed on a mountain railway from Caux to Rochers de Naye, Switzerland. Originally filmed in 68mm. The film was advertised as being available in 'standard Edison gauge' (35mm) at a total length of 620ft, which included both ascent and descent. The surviving combined 35mm footage (from 68mm originals) equals 519ft.

Betsy Ross Dance

1903 • 2 min • United States of America

Presumably the woman is Betsy Ross, and she's quite a pretty woman with tumbling dark hair and coltish legs. She dances energetically, but it all looks spontaneous and un-choreographed meaning that there's not a lot of rhythm to her movements.

Life of an American Fireman

1903 • 7 min • United States of America

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with their horse drawn pumper, arrive on the scene, and effect the safe rescue of a woman from the burning house. But wait, she tells them of her child yet asleep in the burning bedroom...

What Happened in the Tunnel

1903 • 1 min • United States of America

A woman riding a train must contend with the unwelcome advances of a male passenger.

Captain Deasy's Daring Drive, Descent

1903 • 1 min • Germany

Filmed on a mountain railway from Caux to Rochers de Naye, Switzerland. Originally filmed in 68mm. The film was advertised as being available in 'standard Edison gauge' (35mm) at a total length of 620ft, which included both ascent and descent. The surviving combined 35mm footage (from 68mm originals) equals 519ft.

Faust and Mephistopheles

1903 • 2 min • France

A re-telling of the classic tale of Faust in all of two minutes by French filmmaker Alice Guy.