The best movies 1903 Pagina 18

A documentary film covering the Delhi Durbar held in 1903 to mark the coronation of King Edward VII. It includes footage of Lord Curzon, the then...

Male letter carriers of the U.S. Post Office are the subject of this series on the Postal Department. The camera was placed to show a large number of...

A very interesting and unusual view showing the progress of the deep excavation at 42nd St. and Broadway. The camera is tilted up and down instead of...

American Mutoscope & Biograph made a whole series of these films covering everything from the mail being collected from post boxes to being delivered...

The camera is there on the crowded beach, and curious onlookers stare openly as it pans around them.

America's Cup Races.

Photographed from a single camera position above the heads of the crowds watching a parade, the film shows several different chapters of the...

Firemen on roof playing hose. Smoke & ladder visible. Pan across ground level of gutted building with some posters visible.

We see a man sporting a derby hat and walrus moustache hang a mail sack on one of those poles that stand beside a railway track followed by a second...

As a study of a man at work (sorting through a large collection of mail - presumably cancelled judging by this short's title) this film pretty much...

Single shot panning across a landscape. Edison films, 1903.

Pedestrians, horse carts wagons and electric tram cross large open cross roads near Boar Lane, Leeds, Yorkshire.

Film of a royal visit to Ireland, by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. Appears on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion"

The tops of some buildings are visible in the background. The camera was elevated several stories above the ground. In the immediate foreground,...

A dealer in statues hustles a drunkard who retaliates by breaking all the statues, the Dealer rushes off for the police but upon his return with the...

The wagon drops of a parcel of mail in the post box which is immediately collected by a gentleman who was clearly waiting stage left for his cue.

The film opens with a man standing at the brow of a hill looking off to his left as a black man pushing a cart passes behind him in the other...

The first scene appears to have been taken on a main thoroughfare of large city. In the immediate foreground is a horse-drawn U.S. mail vehicle...

The films shows the arrival of a group from the British court in Tehran from the streets to the palace, in order to gift the Order of Garter to...

9 ladies dance.

The U.S.S. "Indiana" in action. Filmed by American Mutoscope & Biograph on November 11, 1903 in Glen Island, NY.