All Films

Building a Harbor at San Pedro

1901 • 4 min

This picture was secured from a launch furnished by Mr. Eager, President of the California Construction Co....

Hunslet v Leeds

1901 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A less-than-serious Leeds team take a four-goals-and-two-tries battering from Hunslet.

Halifax v Salford

1901 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Northern Union footage.

Rocking Gold in the Klondike

1901 • 1 min • United States of America

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 rocker until it becomes too thick with earth for further use. The scene is one of action, as the valuable character of the ground enables many to work profitably in close quarters. An interesting and instructive subject.

A Phenomenal Contortionist

1901 • 33 min

The scene opens in a beautiful garden scene. St. Elmo appears and proceeds to twist his anatomy into wonderful shapes. Several mysterious changes add great attraction to this subject.

Bartolomé Mitre visita el Museo de Historia

1901 • 2 min • Argentina

Panorama of Grand Harbour, Malta, Showing Battleships, Etc.

1901 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Single panning shot of the Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta.

Bailey's Royal Buxton Punch And Judy Show In Halifax

1901 • 3 min

Documentation of an audience watching a puppeteer working in a booth.

The Gans-McGovern Fight

1901 • 9 min

With the exception of this film there are absolutely no genuine moving picture films representing genuine prize fights on the market. The prize fight films, so-called, are either taken by the fight promoters and retained by them for exhibition, not on sale and cannot be procured, or else they are the boldest fake reproductions put up the day following the fight by cheap, so-called fighters, who endeavor, to the best of their ability and under the direction of the enterprising photographer, to represent or reproduce as nearly as possible the scrap which occured the evening before between the genuine principles. It is easy to see how very little real value films produced in these ways possess for the average public, which quick to see that the so-called priniples in the fight are not the men they are advertised to be, and the fight is not the real thing.

En casa del fotógrafo

1901 • 1 min • Argentina

Silent short film portraying photographer Pedro Sanquirico.

The Maasbrug in Rotterdam

1901 • 1 min • Netherlands

A well-preserved slice of life in Holland, showing people and horse-drawn trolleys in front of the ornamented Maasbrug bridge. Approximately 1901.

Parade on West End Pier, Morecambe

1901 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Mitchell & Kenyon.

'Columbia' and 'Shamrock II': Turning the Outer Stake Boat

1901 • 1 min • United States of America

Here the yachts are both sailing under a twenty-knot breeze, and the effect is most beautiful as they turn the stake, the Shamrock leading by one-eight of a mile. The sailors working at the ropes make a most beautiful effect as the yachts pull about for home and begin the great struggle which ended in the awarding of the cup to Columbia.

York Road Board School, Leeds

1901 • 3 min

A small battalion of Yorkshire schoolchildren lines up for a playground photograph.

West End Pier, Morecambe

1901 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Mitchell & Kenyon.

Escenas callejeras

1901 • 1 min • Argentina

Short film consisting of 2 reels filmed in front of a painted backdrop. It tells an anecdote by portraying the activity of everyday characters (the lamplighter, a policeman, the shoeshine boy, children playing balls) and staging a gag : the collision between a cyclist and a pedestrian.

Riding Servants Cross the River

1901 • 5 min • Iran

One of the first ever films Mirza Ebrahim Khan made in Iran, shows the servants of the Shah crossing a river (probably Jajrood river) with horses and lots of loadings.

Japanese Schoolchildren

1901 • 2 min • Japan, United Kingdom

Film produced by the Warwick Trading Company.

Nora's 4th of July

1901 • 1 min

Willie puts a pack of firecrackers in the flour which Nora is preparing for her dough. A policeman comes in and is entertained by Nora. Willie in the meantime explodes the firecrackers, covering Nora and policeman with the contents of the pan. —AMB Picture Catalogue

Breakwater and the Visit of the English Squadron

1901 • 1 min • Spain

Documentary filmed by Fructuoso Gelabert at the Spanish coast.

Panoramic View of the Morecambe Sea Front

1901 • 3 min • United Kingdom

One long traveling shot through a sea front lined with tourists, workers, and sundry others.

Royal Scots Regiment at Edinburgh Castle

1901 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Troops play up for the camera in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle.

Rugby Football Match

1901 • 2 min

Leicester Tigers face Plymouth in this early filmed rugby match, which took place 26 October 1901, at Leicester's Welford Road home. As is customary in early sporting films, only a small proportion of the match is captured, due to the technical limitations of the time. The match ended in a 3-3 draw.

A Trip Around the Pan-American Exposition

1901 • 12 min • United States of America

The Pan-American Exposition is encircled by an especially constructed canal, which was put in for the purpose of allowing the tourist to view the exterior of the buildings of the Pan-American Exposition with as little fatigue as possible.