"This funny individual will make you laugh until your sides ache. He is funny in all his actions, yet when he puts on his shoes you can imagine the...

First of a series of films showing visitors to the Paris Exposition 1900 standing on a mobile wooden platform.

A moving tour through lively turn-of-the-century Southampton.

Woman dances the polka.

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...

The funeral of composer Johan Peter Emilius Hartmanns in Vor Frue Kirke.

The 1900 Paris World's Fair as seen from Trocadéro.

Consisting of a single shot, Spiders on a Web is one of the earliest British examples of close-up natural history photography. Made by one of the...

This shows the heart of one of the tremendous drifts in the east end of Galveston. Hundreds of dead bodies are concealed in these immense masses, and...

A gardener is watering a garden. A prankster stands on his hose halting the flow until he looks at the nozzle and gets a stream of water to the face....

Butterfly dance.

3 women dance

George Footit & Rafael Patodos starts fighting.

The scene takes place in a fashionable cafe. A well dressed couple enter, and after a careful perusal of the menu, conclude on an order of boiled...

Shows all the prominent buildings on this thoroughfare, ending with a close view of the base of the Eiffel Tower, with the Trocadero Palace in the...

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.

A Victorian vaudeville routine is given the big screen treatment with camera tricks galore.Three characters straight off the vaudeville stage - the...

Carlotta Zambelli dances for the camera.

Man and woman dance.

Shots of waves crashing upon rocks just out of frame.

James White, the Edison Company's main filmmaker at the time, realized a burst of creativity during his visit to the 1900 Paris Exposition. It's...

Filmed in July 1900, on the Champs Elysées in Paris, France.

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

Cléo de Merode dancing the gavotte in 1900.

The title pretty much tells you all there is to know about this Edison film. It runs a very brief 27-seconds and shows a torpedo hitting its target...

A Thomas Edison film showing a torpedo being shot.

This picture shows several buildings which were wrecked and also shows a rear view of this hotel, which is on the highest point of land in Galveston,...

Jeanne Chasles and Achille Viscusi dances.

Beginning with the camera pointing toward the Invalides entrance, with the tomb of Napoleon in the background. The camera is slowly revolved until it...

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

Alberto Santos Dumont flies one of his dirigibles.

An advert by the British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

A very lifelike picture of the famous New York politician and Tammany Hall boss. This picture was taken on Sunday morning [sic] as he was leaving the...

Raw Google translate: "A young woman is a cook in a stately home, but as often as she can, she reads her favorite drama 'Johanne of Orleans' while...

Near the center of this scene we see the regimental surgeon directing the movements of the Ambulance Corps. Tenderly they pick up the unfortunates...

This is the building in which so many of the poor orphans met their death. The place is completely dismantled. In addition to the orphanage is shown...

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...

It's what it says on the label: a panoramic shot of East Galveston, right after the Storm of the Century came through, ripping up trees and...

The scene opens in the interior of an artist's studio. Mephisto appears mysteriously and signals the pictures to come to life. They step down from...