All Films - Short Movie Database

Tietgen's Funeral

1901 • 1 min • Denmark

Prominent people at a funeral.

President Roosevelt at the Army-Navy Game

1901 • 1 min • United States of America

In this picture President Roosevelt is seen crossing the field from the Navy to the Army side between the halves of the game. He is accompanied by Secretary of War Root, Secretary of Navy Long, and other notables.

St George's Day Procession in Liverpool

1901 • 8 min

Liverpool was a flourishing, prosperous city in 1901 and this display of English patriotism and civic pride was one of several events in the city captured on film that year. We see the throng of onlookers around Nelson's monument and Castle Street as the procession wends its way to St. George's Hall.

Arrest of Goudie

1901 • 6 min • United Kingdom

This film recreates the arrest of Thomas Goudie, a bank employee who embezzled £170,000 to pay gambling debts, using the real locations. It shows the exterior of the house where he was hiding during a nationwide manhunt and re-enacts scenes of the landlady informing on him and his arrest. The film has no explanatory titles, so presumably audiences would have known, or were told, the story.

Royal Visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to New Zealand

1901 • 56 min

The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York travelled to New Zealand in 1901 to thank New Zealanders for their contribution to the Boer War. Only a short fragment remains of a much longer film.

Royal Proclamation of the Death of Queen Victoria, Blackburn

1901 • 2 min • United Kingdom

The exact moment when the Victorian age turned into the Edwardian age, in this public proclomation in Blackburn, UK on Jan 22 or 23, 1901.

Warrington v. St. Helens

1901 • 2 min

Lancashire's St Helens, in hooped shirts, visited Cheshire rivals Warrington for this early Edwardian game. As in other Mitchell and Kenyon rugby films, we can see here an early phase of the evolution of Northern Union rules: note the quickly-formed scrum after each tackle. Shots along the touchline show officials and spectators transfixed by the play, while others are distracted by the camera. The Northern Rugby Football Union, better known as Northern Union, was formed in 1895, when prominent Yorkshire and Lancashire clubs resigned from the Rugby Football Union in a dispute over compensation for players taking time off work. All the major differences between the two codes would be established by 1907.

Sieurin's Pictures

1901 • 11 min • Sweden

A collection of short films by Swedish engineer Emil Sieurin.

Laborers in Victorian England

1901 • 6 min • United Kingdom

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

Henley Regatta

1901 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Single shot of the finish of a rowing race at Henley Regatta.

Loreburn School, Dumfries

1901 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Mitchell and Kenyon's gorgeous film of Dumfries schoolchildren. The filmmaking duo specialized in filming crowds and then encouraging them to come and see themselves on film at their local fairground.

Women Getting on the Steam Tram

1901 • 2 min • Iran

Women getting on and riding Tehran-Rey railway tram.

Recreation of a Hunting Scene on the Roof

1901 • 1 min • Iran

This film that is recorded on the roof of Golestan Palace, shows Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar and the rest of palace residents walking and looking far at the sky to watch or shoot birds. It might at first look like a short documentary movie but it is actually a drama in which the Shah plays the role of himself in an attempt to remake the real hunting/watching scene.

Buxton Skyline

1901 • 2 min • United Kingdom

A striking panorama of the Peak District town and its magnificent Georgian Crescent.

President McKinley Inauguration Footage

1901 • 1 min • United States of America

Original President McKinley Inauguration Footage from 1901.

North Sea Fisheries, North Shields

1901 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Girls gut herring on the quay at North Shields while a Showman tries to stir up trouble.

The Waif and the Wizard

1901 • 2 min • United Kingdom

The Waif and the Wizard features the same young man who appeared in Undressing Extraordinary (and who might be early filmmaker Walter Booth). It's another early example of a two-shot film along the lines of Paul's earlier film Come Along Do!. The young man plays a magician who, after completing his act, agrees to go home with the young boy from the audience who helped him perform his tricks. At the boy's home he finds a sick sister and a worried mother being threatened with eviction by her landlord.