The best movies 1900 Pagina 17

Actuality film of the British Commander-in-Chief Lord Roberts presiding over the raising of the Union Jack in Pretoria during the Second Boer War....

In China at the turn of the 20th century, there was a rebel group called the Society of the Harmonious Fist, otherwise known as Boxers. They attacked...

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

1900 Gaumont version of the ubiquitous Serpentine dance, this one hand tinted. Filmmaker anonymous. (not to be mistaken with Alice...

A "lady" undresses for bed.

Guy with a Handkerchief

Christine Kerf as the Greek muse Terpsichore, in 1900.

A gardener is watering a garden. A prankster stands on his hose halting the flow until he looks at the nozzle and gets a stream of water to the face....

Original archive catalogue record indicates "maybe be taken from the 1909 film From Portofino to Nervi" but the festival notes indicate the Pasquali...

A Victorian vaudeville routine is given the big screen treatment with camera tricks galore.Three characters straight off the vaudeville stage - the...

TRICK. Two bathers arrive at a river, disrobe at the water's edge and dive in. The action is then reversed and the men are seen leaving the water...

A dramatic scene - and exactly what moving pictures were invented for. With a fixed camera and without a traditional narrative, this film...

This striking film re-stages an episode from the Matabele wars between African natives and British infantry

Two chaps, a Gramophone, and a dog called Nipper. What could possibly go wrong?

Variant titles from Biograph production logs indicate that the 15th Infantry was on the way to China. Other sources indicate that the regiment was...

A highland fling

this film is a documentary about the trip of Muzaffar al-Din Shah Qajar to Belgium. In Muzaffar al-Din Shah's travelogue, there is a report that is...

Yet another factory gate exit film from Mitchell and Kenyon.

A conversation between two gents perks up when the see a picture in a magazine. A 'facial' comedy by GA Smith.

Jeanne Chasles dances for the presentation of the Phono-Cinema-Theatre.