Most Viewed Year 1900 - 17

This short film, along with other experimental sound films, is thought to have been recorded for the Paris 'Exposition Universelle' of 1900.

Footage of a parade party in the Netherlands.

Carlotta Zambelli dances for the camera.

Footage showing Arab riders.

Footage from the Boer War.

A succession of British soldiers are carried up a gangplank by stretcher-bearers from the quayside to a hospital ship at Durban; walking casualties...

The president of South Africa (Transvaal) visits Paris.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

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

Horse drawn fire engines en route to an emergency.

A dramatic scene - and exactly what moving pictures were invented for. With a fixed camera and without a traditional narrative, this film...

General Mitre and others visit the Museo Nacional.

his film was shot in an alley of San Francisco's Chinatown on Saturday, September 15, 1900, at midday. The topography of the site (sloping down to...

Animal herding across a large river.

Inauguration of the Expo.

A bunch of cyclists going past the camera.

Two bad boys enter the kitchen. One climbs to the kitchen table and takes down the old lamp, the other goes to the flour barrel and scoops out some...

This panoramic scene is taken from a Seine steamboat and gives a rapid view of the banks of the river...

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.

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...