The best movies 1901 Pagina 2

Black and white argentinian movie from 1901.

Passengers and crew boarding the SS Saxonia.

A clown performs various feats of magic based on his ability to detach and reattach different parts of his body.

A temperance society decries the demon drink on the streets of Edwardian Manchester.

Female graduates and gents sporting spectacular Edwardian whiskers take part in Birmingham’s first Degree Day ceremony.

The film shows a parade down Fifth Avenue, New York. In the foreground many children, both black and white, can be seen following alongside the...

A political quarrel between two men that ends in laughter.

A man, objecting to being filmed, comes closer and closer to the camera lens until his mouth is all we see. Then he opens wide and swallows camera...

Single panning shot of the Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta.

A magician does tricks with the aid of his assistant, the Human Pump.

First Hungarian film ever made. Considered lost.

Only part of the film has survived.

Early footage of the Lucania passenger liner.

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

Filmed at the second inauguration of William McKinley on March 4, 1901, this short captures the president taking the oath of office at the U.S....

Scenes of the King's arrival and departure at the Palace of Westminster.

Gilbert Saroni impersonates an exceedingly ugly woman who coyly flirts with her fan.

A splendid subject, showing the champion heavyweight of the world, exercising in his training headquarters. After showing his skill in side-stepping,...

Released in 1901

Cavalry and foot-soldiers escort President McKinley.

1901 film of the Mer de Glace, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A satire on the way that audiences unaccustomed to the cinema didn't know how to react to the moving images on a screen - in this film, an...