The best movies 1900 Pagina 15

A train snaking around Chamonix, Switzerland, with a steep Alpine slope inches away from the tracks.

Phantom Ride, Chamonix

☆ 8

An old lady is seated at a table with her work basket and her cat washing its paws beside her. The old lady makes several attempts to thread a needle...

Grandma Threading Her Needle

☆ 7

An early variety performance with synchronised gramophone sound. Thought to be an early version of The Blind Boy (1917).

The Blind Boy

Early film adaptation of The Prodigal Son.

L'Enfant prodigue

Two Chinese men (in full regalia) and an American-style tough are sitting at a table, eating out of bowls, all of them using chop sticks; The...

In a Chinese Restaurant

Panorama of the Paris Exposition, from the Seine

☆ 6.6

This panoramic scene is taken from a Seine steamboat and gives a rapid view of the banks of the river...

Panorama of the Paris Exposition, from the Seine

Capture of Boer Battery by British

☆ 6.5

Hi-jinx with a clown photographer

Chez le Photographe

An early short with a self-explanatory title.

Panorama of the Moving Boardwalk

☆ 0

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

The Training of Infantry

Alive 2007

Shot just a few days after the relief of Mafeking, this film captures the progress of British military personnel across the Vaal River in South...

A War Balloon and Transport Crossing the Vaal River

☆ 7

A splendid picture of the remarkable centrifuge railroad at Coney Island in which the car makes a complete circle in its course around the track,...

Around the Flip-Flap Railroad

☆ 4.8

This is the building in which so many of the poor orphans met their death. The place is completely dismantled. In addition to the orphanage is shown...

Panorama of Orphans' Home, Galveston

Searching Ruins on Broadway, Galveston, for Dead Bodies

☆ 5

This shows the heart of one of the tremendous drifts in the east end of Galveston. Hundreds of dead bodies are concealed in these immense masses, and...

Searching Ruins on Broadway, Galveston, for Dead Bodies

☆ 6.1

A film in which limbless Nikolai Kobelkoff demonstrates a series of tasks, from aiming a pistol to performing gymnastics. Kobelkoff was born without...

Kobelkoff

A combination of the picture entitled "The Ballet of the Ghosts," and a surf scene; the resulting effect being that the ghostly figures rise up out...

Neptune's Daughters

The picture opens with a crowd of Swiss boys and girls dressed in native costumes, marching down the street in this very unique and picturesque...

Scene in the Swiss Village at Paris Exposition

☆ 0

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

Training at the Regimental Depot

☆ 3.8

A huge fly is bothering an old gentleman, who is trying to take a nap. The old gentleman, after standing the torment as long as he can, jumps up and...