Most Viewed Year 1900

An elderly gentleman in a silk hat sits on a stool in front of a store on the main street of town. He has a telescope that focuses on the ankle of a...

Genre: Comedy

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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,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Georges Méliès

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeanne Calvière

A child borrows his grandmother's magnifying glass to look at a newspaper ad for Bovril, at a watch, and then at a bird. The child shows grandma what...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harold Smith

An early trick film where a car explodes and body parts fall from the sky. A policeman witnesses and attempts to piece the remains back together.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cecil M. Hepworth

Sherlock Holmes enters his drawing room to find it being burgled, but on confronting the villain is surprised when the latter disappears.

Genre: Crime

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A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.

Genre: Animation

Cast: J. Stuart Blackton

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jehanne d'Alcy

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Mr. James

On 28 January 1901 the great musician Giuseppe Verdi died from the consequences of a stroke that had struck him six days earlier. These very rare...

Genre: Documentary

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The picture opens with the Sultan lying down to rest on his luxurious cushioned couch. The scene changes to the grounds around the palace.

Genre: Fantasy

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A man misses his train due to his clothes turning into other types of clothes.

Genre: Comedy

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The entire story of Christmastide is here depicted. The scene opens in a large boudoir of an apparently wealthy man's home. His children, assisted by...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Georges Méliès

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

Genre: History

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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...

Genre: Documentary

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Uncle Josh returns in this sequel to UNCLE JOSH'S NIGHTMARE. This time he checks into a hotel, presumably to get a better nights rest than he got at...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Charles Manley

A turn-of-the-last-century hand-tinted short, which features two women, Miss Lally and Miss Julyett, dancing at a ball. By the legendary French...

Genre: Music

Cast: Miss Lally

Possibly the first film to utilize the technique of focus pulling. A man kisses a beautiful and lively woman, then the image blurs and dissolves into...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Laura Bayley

Genre: Documentary

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bartolomé Mitre