Most Viewed Year 1900 - 20

A scene takes place in front of a cafe; only one performer.

Take an exhilarating ride on one of the most spectacular rail journeys in the world, the Hong Kong Peak Tram. The route opened in 1888, and this...

Victorian filmmakers loved few sights more than crashing waves. Who those filmmakers were in this particular case is not documented, but they have...

This film title is almost, though not quite, false advertising. There's certainly a gale, and a wrecked ship, but the one didn't cause the other....

Panorama of the Quai de la Seine and the pavilions of the exhibition.

Movement of visitors in front of the Exhibition water tower.

In an arena, a Landes race scene with cows.

This striking film re-stages an episode from the Matabele wars between African natives and British infantry

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...

Coolie Boys Diving for Coins positions a scene, popularised in early film generally, within a distinctly colonial context. As with similar films, it...

Mitchell & Kenyon.

There's an organ grinder on the stage, standing in front of a backdrop that's supposed to look like the street. Some young women come up and do a...

A Boer throws a bomb into the British Red Cross tent and wounds a nurse.

Photographed February 5, 1900.

Walter Gibbons was one of Britain's most forward-thinking film entrepreneurs, and deeply entranced by the music hall. In 1900 he launched his 'phono...

Trains steam past a station.

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

Silent record of a performance by Joseph Pujol. He was famous for his remarkable control of the abdominal muscles, which enabled him to seemingly...

An American Mutscope & Biograph production.

Hepworth title C.I.V. Procession: Cyclists and Infantry, catalogue no. 158 ("In their midst proudly marched a trooper who carried the flag of the...