All Films

A Holiday Pageant at Home

1901 • 5 min • United States of America

A few days before the Christmas holiday, a large family decides to put on a home-made play as part of their holiday together. The mother writes the play, and the children practice it. When they are ready, they enact first a prologue and then the play.

Jeffries in His Training Quarters

1901 • 3 min

Shot against a painted backdrop of river with town on other bank & mountains behind. Throwing medicine ball while group of men watch, at least one black. He stands up & gets hit on head with ball. Jeffries shadow boxing & dancing with weights in hands. Sparring barehanded, or wrestling with another man.

A Horrible Nightmare

1901 • 1 min • France

An opium smoker intoxicated by this poison, falls asleep and dreams that he is in prison.

AAA Championships at Fartown, Huddersfield

1901 • 4 min • United Kingdom

The annual championship meeting of England's premier athletics association.

Sham Battle at the Pan-American Exposition

1901 • 5 min

On the closing day of the Pan-American Exposition, Saturday, November 2d, 1901, a sham battle took place at the Stadium on the Pan-American Exposition grounds...

Morecambe Church Lads' Brigade at Drill

1901 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Larking about during Church Lads' Brigade drill and parade in Morecambe.

Stop Thief!

1901 • 2 min • United Kingdom

A lad from a butcher shop is carrying a tray laden with a roast or a leg of lamb. A hobo grabs it and runs. The boy gives chase, joined by dogs, as neighbors watch the spectacle. The hobo jumps into a large rain barrel, followed by the dogs.

The Puzzled Bather and His Animated Clothes

1901 • 1 min

As a man removes his clothes to bathe, more reappear on him.

Broadway & Union Square, New York

1901 • 1 min • United States of America

Photographed: August 19, 1901. Location: Broadway and 14th Street, New York, N.Y. Duration: 0:22 at 15 fps. Biograph production no. 2264. Descriptions: - "A couple of trams, one traveling towards the camera, the other traveling away, and the passengers who get on and off." - "Electric trolley's pick up and drop off passengers on Broadway near Union Square. The area was originally part of Elias Brevoort's farm in the early eighteenth century. It eventually contained the intersection of the Bowery and Bloomingdale Road (now Broadway) and in 1811 was known as Union Place. Between 1860 and 1910 retail stores such as Tiffany's and Brentano's moved to the area, which became the midpoint in the fashionable shopping district later known as the Ladies' Mile."

The Georgetown Loop (Colorado)

1901 • 3 min • United States of America

Georgetown, 1901. A silver-mining town at 8,500 feet near the crest of the Rockies. Hooked somehow to the rear of a four-car passenger train is a camera that pans the scenery and, when the train goes around curves, looks ahead to see the engine and passenger cars: the passengers wave hundreds of white handkerchiefs out of the train's left-side windows for the benefit of the camera. The town comes into view; the tracks are above the town, so the camera looks down on dozens of modest rooftops as it pans the area. (AMB 1901, copyrighted 1903.)

Clowns Comedy Perfomance in the Palace

1901 • 7 min • Iran

This film is a footage of multiple comedic performances called "Baghal Bazi" in the royal palace for Mozaffar ad-Din Shah. It includes items as Stick hitting, Negotiate with an Arab, foot whipping of the dwarf.

Funeral of Queen Victoria

1901 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Actuality film documenting the funeral of Queen Victoria in February 1901. The footage captures the solemn processions and ceremonies that marked the end of her long reign, offering a rare moving-image record of a major state occasion. Widely circulated internationally, the film reflects both the global reach of British newsreel subjects and the early power of cinema to record historic events.

Photograph Taken From An Area Window

1901 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Close view of legs and feet passing a basement window.

Fire!

1901 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Firefighters ring for help, and here comes the ladder cart; they hitch a horse to it. A second horse-drawn truck joins the first, and they head down the street to a house fire. Inside a man sleeps, he awakes amidst flames and throws himself back on the bed. In comes a firefighter, hosing down the blaze. He carries out the victim, down a ladder to safety. Other firefighters enter the house to save belongings, and out comes one with a baby. The saved man rejoices, but it's not over yet.

Ride on the Tram Car through Belfast

1901 • 4 min • United Kingdom

In 1901 people in Belfast paid their tram drivers in carrots.

Lahury the Soldier

1901 • 2 min • France

Dranem enters the barracks and takes off his field kit in preparation for some bunk time. However, every time he gets down to his skivvies, his field undress and pack reappear on him, ready for field maneuvers!

The Death of Poor Joe

1901 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A scene from Charles Dickens' Bleak House.

Manchester Band of Hope Procession

1901 • 7 min • United Kingdom

A temperance society decries the demon drink on the streets of Edwardian Manchester.

Mister Moon

1901 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Likely a popular routine from Percy Honri's musical theatre show. His face is seen poking through a blackout curtain, made up as the man in the moon. A hat and puppet body appears, strumming a ukulele.

Parkgate Iron and Steel Co., Rotherham

1901 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Edwardian workers react to the camera at one of Rotherham's major employers.

Photographing a Country Couple

1901 • 1 min • United States of America

The scene opens showing Reuben and his best girl looking for a quiet place to spoon. A photographer enters and suggests taking their pictures.

S.S. Saxonia in Liverpool

1901 • 2 min

Passengers and crew boarding the SS Saxonia.

Day at the Circus

1901 • 3 min • United States of America

We present here a series of interesting pictures and show a number of scenes just as witnessed by a visitor to the Great Forepaugh and Sells Bros. combined four-ring circus. We begin by showing the complete circus parade as it takes place in the street. The first scene shows the parade coming down a broad asphalt avenue with park in background. Entire parade shows elephants, camels, band wagons, chariots, cages of animals, and full circus paraphernalia, making a most interesting subject. The next picture shows the assembly or grand entry, and includes the entrance into the arena of the elephants, chariots, wild animals, horses, camels, etc.

Catching an Early Train

1901 • 1 min • United States of America

Shows a suburbanite asleep in bed. He discovers he has overslept himself, and jumps out of bed.