Most Viewed Year 1900 - 5

Prince Edward of York, executing the manual of arms, attended by Prince Albert, and Princess Victoria, of York.

A review of the Republican Guard and firemen at Longchamp filmed by the Lumière brothers.

Near the center of this scene we see the regimental surgeon directing the movements of the Ambulance Corps. Tenderly they pick up the unfortunates...

Comic scenes taken at the Nouveau-Cirque by the two famous clowns Foottit and Chocolat. To separate Foottit and Chocolat who are fighting, their...

Sailors row a whaling boat in a medium-tight shot.

Marquesas in their sedan chairs.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

Considered the first motion picture to employ both color and sound, the only film record ever made of the original star of Rostand's famous play...

Footage from the dawn of film taken in Belle Époque-era Paris, France from 1896-1900.

The single camera position is from the top of a building identified as the Trocadero Palace; The camera is pointed toward the Eiffel Tower. The film...

Passengers travelling in litters in the French protectorate of Annam

This scene is laid on a tropical shore. A pickaninny is fishing, when a huge alligator creeps up upon him and swallows him. The old father, who has...

At the first news of the disast by cyclone and tidal wave that devastated Galveston on Saturday, September 8th, 1900, we equipped a party of...

Two sets of images are superimposed. From the side, we see a two-masted ship. Across the deck walks a skeleton. It sits down, its legs akimbo. The...

Naval ratings pulling along naval guns during the Boer War.

Here we have a mixed company of Gordon Highlanders, Irish Fusilliers and English Lancers, as a group of prisoners taken to the rear by a troop of...