The best movies 1900 Pagina 20

Crowds at the entrance to the London Hippodrome await the departure of Sir George White. He emerges in company with Mr Cook, the manager of the...

A dispatch rider gets through a Boer ambush.

Footage of a parade party in the Netherlands.

Newly-arrived British troops march away from the jetty towards a square and are surrounded by the waiting crowds.

Horse drawn fire engines en route to an emergency.

This scene is laid on a tropical shore. A pickaninny is fishing, when a huge alligator creeps up upon him and swallows him. The old father, who has...

A day at the beach in 1901.

This film belongs to the PHONO CINEMA THEATRE programme that ran during the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1900, with synchronized screenings of...

The famous Polytechnic Harriers, one of Britain’s premier athletic clubs, who would later open the 1908 London Olympics, running a paper chase...

Coolie Boys Diving for Coins positions a scene, popularised in early film generally, within a distinctly colonial context. As with similar films, it...

Third of a series of films showing visitors to the Paris Exposition 1900 standing on a mobile wooden platform.

A magician dressed as Mephistopheles conjures up a variety of people and objects in this short film.

A German warship.

This 270-degree panorama in England starts on Bristol's iconic suspension bridge - an engineering triumph designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The...

A white cat is placed on a horse's back, with trainer and two other onlookers. c1900.

Two comedians are washing at basins. One covers himself in white soap lather, but slyly gives blacking to his fellow, who applies vigorously.

A Boer throws a bomb into the British Red Cross tent and wounds a nurse.

It is worthy of note that the film can be watched in a shorter amount of time than it takes to to say the film's title.

Trains steam past a station.

A British battery emplacement fires a gun and the gun collapses; its wheels fall from the hillside as a contingent of Boers attack.

A beautiful young blonde woman in scanty attire is seen reclining in the center of a set of a spider web. A well-dressed young man passes in front of...