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

"Nothing new, but an old thing done over again and done well. Some one has attempted to describe a kiss as "something made of nothing," but this is...

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

A landlady is taunted by neighborhood kids.

A prince gets the help of a fairy to aid in his conflict with a wizard.

This film is part of the Mitchell and Kenyon collection - an amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth...

Shot both on and from an elevated electric train.

The movie consists solely of a saber fight. Bernhardt plays a cross-gender Hamlet, and Pierre Magnier is her fellow duelist, Laertes. A few...

Marquesas in their sedan chairs.

Uncle Josh returns in this sequel to UNCLE JOSH'S NIGHTMARE. This time he checks into a hotel, presumably to get a better nights rest than he got at...

“Showing the entire height of this wonderful structure from the base of the dome and return, with the great Paris Exposition in the background,...

The magician enters upon a stage, and removing a covering from a small table, shakes it before the audience to show that there is nothing whatever...

Alberto Santos Dumont flies one of his dirigibles.

Shots of the panorama, filmed from the winding railroad tracks that stretch along the coast, from Beaulieu to Monaco, including tunnel passages.

A client has trouble listening to the photographer's instructions.

Madame Ondine performs a serpentine dance surrounded by big cats.

The Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre was a special pavilion at the 1900 Paris World's Fair which featured filmed performances presented with sound via wax...

A very simple gag film as a young lady substitutes herself for a dummy in order to play a practical joke on an artist.

George Mélies made a version of this a few years later, often titled Une Indigestion, but Guy-Blaché’s earlier film Chirurgie Fin de Siecle...

The Prince of Wales reviews Paget's Horse, with black dog following.

TRICK. Two bathers arrive at a river, disrobe at the water's edge and dive in. The action is then reversed and the men are seen leaving the water...

A cleverly conceived picture of a little boy and girl with building blocks. The little girl has erected a pretty structure, which the boy proceeds to...

While our photographers were crossing the Atlantic Ocean a most wonderful and sensational picture was secured, showing a storm at sea. The picture...

This scene opens by showing a pretty cook mixing bread in the kitchen. Jones comes in unexpectedly from a trip and carries a dress suitcase. He...

Two Chinese men (in full regalia) and an American-style tough are sitting at a table, eating out of bowls, all of them using chop sticks; The...

The single camera position is from the top of a building identified as the Trocadero Palace; The camera is pointed toward the Eiffel Tower. The film...

AN UNEXPECTED BATH" shows the astronomer watching women rain down from the heavens.

Recovering from a severe illness (likely typhoid), W.K.L. Dickson received word from London that the audience's enthusiasm for the military was...

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

Woman dances the polka.

A legless beggar with a sign around his neck saying "cripple" pushes himself slowly and laboriously on a trolley along the pavement, soliciting alms...

Photographed February 5, 1900.

"A series of admirable living pictures, posed by competent artists, and faithfully representing well-known art masterpieces, notably the works of...

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

An advert by the British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

One of Alberto Santos Dumont's dirigibles is led out of a hangar.

A chimney sweep and a miller become involved in a street fight. The sweep has a bag of soot on his back, and the miller a bag of flour.

Two delinquent clerks are seated in a broker's office engaged in a game of cards. The boss suddenly appears walking through the corridor. The cards...