Most Viewed Year 1901 - 3

Firefighters ring for help, and here comes the ladder cart; they hitch a horse to it. A second horse-drawn truck joins the first, and they head down...

An Edwardian football match at Newcastle's St James' Park ground.

A magician does tricks with the aid of his assistant, the Human Pump.

A conjuror appears to demonstrate a lady with three heads.

A peasant refuses to help a poor old woman to carry a bundle of wood. The old woman transforms to a beautiful fairy seated in a magnificent chariot...

President McKinley Inauguration

Georgetown, 1901. A silver-mining town at 8,500 feet near the crest of the Rockies. Hooked somehow to the rear of a four-car passenger train is a...

Here we see one of the methods employed in the search for gold, where water is scarce. We see the workmen using the water over and over again in the...

Persons who have visited the "Hub," no doubt carried away with vivid recollections of Boston's famous system of Underground Transportation and this...

A poor old woman tries in vain to get rid of some troublesome fleas.

A magician's hat offers many surprises.

The Waif and the Wizard features the same young man who appeared in Undressing Extraordinary (and who might be early filmmaker Walter Booth). It's...

Dranem enters the barracks and takes off his field kit in preparation for some bunk time. However, every time he gets down to his skivvies, his field...

The film shows a parade down Fifth Avenue, New York. In the foreground many children, both black and white, can be seen following alongside the...

In 1953, in an old cabinet of a former photographer from Zermatt, a first mountaineering film was found. It was a silent film from the first era...

An opium smoker intoxicated by this poison, falls asleep and dreams that he is in prison.

An oppressive droning score makes this rendering of the Faust legend quite disturbing to watch. The film itself consists of a number of impressive...

Four black minstrels turn into white clowns and back again when they hit or kick each other.