The best movies 1901 Pagina 5

Comedy short film by Georges Méliès.

A convicted criminal dreams about his past the night before his execution.

A group of miners (including a sole black worker) exits the colliery gates.

Exciting scenes of amateur cycling's 'Race of Champions' at Manchester's Fallowfield track.

Persons who have visited the "Hub," no doubt carried away with vivid recollections of Boston's famous system of Underground Transportation and this...

A splendid subject, showing the champion heavyweight of the world, exercising in his training headquarters. After showing his skill in side-stepping,...

On the roof of an ancient palace appear a young Knight and his lady. While they are making love an ugly old witch appears and is rather troublesome....

A short documentary registering the meeting between two aviation pioneers: the Brazilian Santos Dumont and the Briton Charles Rolls. In it, Dumont...

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

An impression of the funeral parade for Victoria, Queen of England, filmed in London (via https://catalogue-lumiere.com/le-char-funebre/)

Passengers and crew boarding the SS Saxonia.

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

At the beginning of the scene Romeo in his gondola sings to Juliet a sentimental song, then goes away. Hardly has he departed when the colonnade...

A peasant refuses to help a poor old woman to carry a bundle of wood. The old woman transforms to a beautiful fairy seated in a magnificent chariot...

Troops parade past the camera.

A magician explores two halves of his self: The Dwarf and the Giant.

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

Pedestrian and vehicle traffic in the street.

An old maid is walking about the studio while the photographer is getting his camera ready. She first looks at a hanger, which immediately falls from...

Stage star Anna Held (1872-1918) riffs on her once-famous scene from the comedy Papa's Wife (1899-1901) featuring a naif getting tipsy on her first...

A diver jumps into a body of water-- and then comes right back out! This film should not be confused with Ferdinand Zecca's own remake of the same...

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...