Movies & TV Shows from 1900

A conversation between two gents perks up when the see a picture in a magazine. A 'facial' comedy by GA Smith.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

Madame Ondine performs a serpentine dance surrounded by big cats.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

An antisemitic comedy in which two Jewish clothiers cut prices until one buys the other's stock.

Drama by Walter R. Booth. Survival status unknown.

Chinese passengers make their way down the wharf. Two chair bearers are soliciting fares, but without any success.

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 demolish with pokes of his fingers. When the demolition of the house is completed, the film is shown in reverse, and the little building comes back to its original form in a most marvellous manner.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

The scene is a railroad track on the side of a steep mountain, with a tunnel in the background, toward which a train is running at a high rate of speed. At this instant the audience is appalled at the sight of a second train rushing out of the tunnel. Both trains are on the same track and traveling toward each other at a high rate of speed. They collide. Cars and engines are smashed into fragments and thrown down the steep incline. (Edison Catalog)

A landlady is taunted by neighborhood kids.

In a charming dining room a very attractive young lady is seen seated at the table, evidently waiting for the caller who is to share a quiet little dinner for two. A moment later a dude of the regular chappy type enters and seats himself at the table. As soon as the meal commences the inevitable wicked small boy sneaks in unobserved, and producing a piece of rope ties one end securely to the dude's coat tails and fastens the other to the table-cloth.

A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.

Photographed February-March, 1898 in Canton, China

Trick film. A stage magician transforms a woman into a butterfly and himself into a giant bat. This film is considered lost.

Vesuvius erupts and people escape from a room as the ceiling falls.

TRICK. Two bathers arrive at a river, disrobe at the water's edge and dive in. The action is then reversed and the men are seen leaving the water feet first and their clothes fly back on their bodies.

A child borrows his grandmother's magnifying glass to look at a newspaper ad for Bovril, at a watch, and then at a bird. The child shows grandma what he is doing. The child looks next at grandma's eye, then at a kitten.

Taken from a music hall sketch of Lewin Fitzhamon and advertised as 'Two minutes of white hot excitement taking place on the open veldt.