1901 Movies

Early footage of the Lucania passenger liner.

Passengers and crew boarding the SS Saxonia.

Shows a tramp enter and try to ride a wheel, from which he makes some very ludicrous falls and gives up in despair, after which an artist enters and j...

Outside a fairground cinematograph in Edwardian Lancashire.

Shows two lovers in a hammock. Two bad boys appear. One of them climbs into a tree and scrambles out on an overhanging branch, directly over the happy...

Studies on human pathological locomotion.

One long traveling shot through a sea front lined with tourists, workers, and sundry others.

In this picture there is a limited amount of action in the pose. As the curtains are drawn aside the shell appears shut. It gradually opens, disclosin...

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

Leicester Tigers face Plymouth in this early filmed rugby match, which took place 26 October 1901, at Leicester's Welford Road home. As is customary i...

In a bakery in the French countryside, Father Latourte, his wife, and their staff are busy with customers, pastries, and baked goods of all kinds. The...

Troops play up for the camera in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle.

Using a blue tint to set the scene under the sea, this is a short, surprisingly violent film where two divers fight to the death with axes over some t...

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 pl...

Lost short comedy film by Georges Méliès

Silent film

Here we show Captain N. P. Nissen, formerly known as Captain Bowser, making a trip through the Whirlpool Rapids in his famous twenty-four foot craft k...

President McKinley Inauguration

Panorama of a mountainside railroad and tunnel.

A high nobleman finds himself in the Temple of the Sun, where he meets Mascarille, who proposes himself as a juggler. After extracting from the noblem...