The best movies 1900

Alberto Santos Dumont flies one of his dirigibles.

This film is part of the Mitchell and Kenyon collection - an amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth...

Four men each hold a large slice of watermelon, and have a race to see who can finish eating first. All four move quickly, but one man seems to be...

The movie consists solely of a saber fight. Bernhardt plays a cross-gender Hamlet, and Pierre Magnier is her fellow duelist, Laertes. A few...

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

The Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre was a special pavilion at the 1900 Paris World's Fair which featured filmed performances presented with...

Panorama of the Swiss city.

Comic scenes taken at the Nouveau-Cirque by the two famous clowns Foottit and Chocolat. To separate Foottit and Chocolat who are fighting, their...

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair,...

The film is a panorama shot-scene lasting just under a minute. The panorama film, as coined by Lumière, is a moving-camera shot--usually...

“A marvelously clear picture taken from the top of the elevator of the Eiffel Tower during going up and coming down of the car. This wonderful...

Showing the attacking forces drawn up in line of battle. They immediately commence firing on the shore batteries. The batteries return the fire with...

Near the main entrance. Hundreds of carriages and characteristic Parisian busses are passing.

The titles tell us this film is based on an incident in the Boxer Rebellion. A man tries to defend a woman and a large house against Chinese...

Trick film. A stage magician transforms a woman into a butterfly and himself into a giant bat. This film is considered lost.

One of Alberto Santos Dumont's dirigibles is led out of a hangar.

Two delinquent clerks are seated in a broker's office engaged in a game of cards. The boss suddenly appears walking through the corridor. The cards...

Prince Edward of York, executing the manual of arms with the British flag.

Cléo de Merode dancing the gavotte in 1900.

Produced by Casa Lepage, it is the first appearance of tango in the cinema, as it contains brief scenes in which the dancer El Negro Agapito...

Brazilian President Manuel Ferraz de Campos Salles visits Argentina in 1900.

Spanish lost film about the Valencian carnival directed by Ángel García Cardona.

Spanish lost film directed by Ángel García Cardona. There is, however, a fragment that could correspond to this film.

Spanish lost film about Valencian traditions directed by Ángel García Cardona.

Several painters unsuccessfully try to paint something on a canvas. A man enters the scene and with a single brushstroke achieves a huge sign that...