The best movies 1901 Pagina 11

Lost short comedy film by Georges Méliès

Edwardian workers react to the camera at one of Rotherham's major employers.

A jovial looking man is seated nearest the window of a restaurant. He has just finished his meal and the waiter brings a glass of beer, and when he...

A burglar ties up a woman while the husband hides under the bed.

A poor old woman tries in vain to get rid of some troublesome fleas.

An urchin annoys two Chinese laundrymen at their wash tubs. They finally catch the boy and give him a good drubbing. At that point, he grabs both...

A daredevil rides his bicycle down a ramp and attempts to land in a pool of water as a crowd of spectators watches.

A gilded saloon, with a fancy bar, forms the background. A nobby bartender with white coat and apron is dispensing drinks to customers. Behind him...

A pretty and natural picture in which the principal actors are two tiny tots who are evidently not a bit afraid of the briny deep as they splash...

Special effects film with a train double exposed on the negative, creating a ghostly image.

A few days before the Christmas holiday, a large family decides to put on a home-made play as part of their holiday together. The mother writes the...

In a recreation of the celebrated painting An Affair of Honor by Emile-Antoine Bayard, several young women are drinking at a restaurant. One is...

One of the principal features at the Pan-American Exposition is the Alaskan or Esquimaux Village. In this most interesting exhibit...

Jeffries walks into his gymnasium at Oakland, Cal., accompanied by Billy Delaney, and begins exercising with the heavy weights. The view was taken...

Stage star Anna Held (1872-1918) riffs on her once-famous scene from the comedy Papa's Wife (1899-1901) featuring a naif getting tipsy on her first...

A very short, simple trick film with some pool divers in reverse.

Carrie Nation and her Hatchet Brigade demolish a Kansas saloon. Bottles fly, beer kegs roll in all directions, and the bartender is flung into the...

A young man's telephone call to his sweetheart is intercepted by her father, who beats him with his umbrella.

In this picture we present a wonderful and life-like likeness of President McKinley.

The great geyser at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. c. 1901.

This is one of hundreds of panoramas made in the early days of film, when views of tourist attractions - like the ancient British icon, Stonehenge -...