1903 Movies

After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit...

An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx.

This is the first movie version of the famous story. Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch. She...

At the royal court, a prince is presenting the princess whom he is pledged to marry when a witch suddenly appears. Though driven off, the witch soon r...

The story of Jesus Christ, from the proclamation of His Nativity to His Ascension into heaven. Impressive staging and beautiful hand-coloring distingu...

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with thei...

A simple scene of two rather flamboyantly-dressed Edwardian children attempting to feed a spoonful of medicine to a sick kitten. The film is important...

A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.

This is a film taken of the execution of Topsy, an elephant employed to help build Luna Park on Coney Island.

The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.

Pluto, having seen the earth, comes back home amazed at the success of that well-known dance, the "cake-walk." He has brought back with him two noted...

A woman, in her bedroom, is putting her jewelry away. Alarmed by strange noises at her door, she hides behind her bed. A burglar enters the room and s...

Alone in his room at an inn, a lustful old man is haunted by spirits.

Two impish clowns construct a magic lantern. They prop it up at an angle, and use it to project pictures onto a wall. When the picture show ends, they...

This picture gives a good idea of how soon one of the New York fireboats can be gotten under way after they receive an alarm of fire...

A traveller is shown to a room in an inn. After a brief dispute with the hostess and a porter, he is left to himself. But strange things begin to happ...

A nude couple pose in an art studio on a square rug, while the camera does a circular traveling around them; the woman has her right knee on the floor...

Film showing the Viceregal party entering Delhi on lavishly decorated elephants, as part of the Coronation durbar of 1903.

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.

Two guards bring a sorcerer into the hall of a palace of the time of the Middle Ages. The king who follows them orders the sorcerer to be chained and...