The best movies 1900 Pagina 22

Victorian filmmakers loved few sights more than crashing waves. Who those filmmakers were in this particular case is not documented, but they have...

Panorama of the quai de la Seine and the foreign pavilions of the Exhibition: Sweden, Monaco, Romania, Spain.

Movement of visitors in front of the Exhibition water tower.

“Same scenery as in the previous view, the sailors embark in the canoes which take them ashore.”

In an arena, a Landes race scene with cows.

Southampton High Street, train view

British fictional propaganda film on a Boer defeat in the Second Boer War, 27th February 1900

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

There's an organ grinder on the stage, standing in front of a backdrop that's supposed to look like the street. Some young women come up and do a...

Cavalry cross the river in enormous number. Occasionally a horse stops to take a drink, and then walks on.

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

Hepworth title C.I.V. Procession: Cyclists and Infantry, catalogue no. 158 ("In their midst proudly marched a trooper who carried the flag of the...

Footage from the Boer War.

A succession of British soldiers are carried up a gangplank by stretcher-bearers from the quayside to a hospital ship at Durban; walking casualties...

A Skirmish with the Boers Near Kimberley by a Troop of Cavalry Scouts Attached to General French's Column. A staged attack by British troops in South...

The president of South Africa (Transvaal) visits Paris.

School is over for the day. A stationary camera is trained on the door of the high school at the top of a few stairs. A man and small boy emerge,...

The approach to a cantilever bridge is shown. The camera is on the front of the car traveling over the rails. The car crosses the cantilever bridge,...

A white actor in blackface steals a chicken and hides in a coal bin. A policeman looks in the coal bin, sits on the lid and calls for help. The man...

his film was shot in an alley of San Francisco's Chinatown on Saturday, September 15, 1900, at midday. The topography of the site (sloping down to...

Animal herding across a large river.

A comical fight between two Hebrews; one a pushcart man, and the other a suspender peddler.