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Footage from the dawn of film taken by Mitchell and Kenyon in North England, 1901.
Laborers in Victorian England
A satire on the way that audiences unaccustomed to the cinema didn't know how to react to the moving images on a screen - in this film, an...
The Countryman and the Cinematograph
A flood of Lancashire cotton workers and their children at the end of another shift.
Alfred Butterworth and Sons, Glebe Mills, Hollinwood
Black and white argentinian movie from 1901.
Bohemia Criolla
As the above title indicates, the scene does not take place in an ordinary restaurant, but one in which all natural rules of order and gravitation...
Mysterious Cafe, or Mr. and Mrs. Spoopendyke Have Troubles with a Waiter
Female graduates and gents sporting spectacular Edwardian whiskers take part in Birmingham’s first Degree Day ceremony.
University Procession on Degree Day, Birmingham
A clown performs various feats of magic based on his ability to detach and reattach different parts of his body.
An Extraordinary Dislocation
A man, objecting to being filmed, comes closer and closer to the camera lens until his mouth is all we see. Then he opens wide and swallows camera...
The Big Swallow
Single panning shot of the Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta.
Panorama of Grand Harbour, Malta, Showing Battleships, Etc.
Early footage of the Lucania passenger liner.
Cunard Mail Steamer Lucania Leaving for America
A temperance society decries the demon drink on the streets of Edwardian Manchester.
Manchester Band of Hope Procession
Gilbert Saroni impersonates an exceedingly ugly woman who coyly flirts with her fan.
The Old Maid in the Horsecar
Shot at the intersection of Holy Corner in Liverpool, this street is a hive of people and traffic. Arguably during the first part of this century...
Liverpool Street Scenes
Passengers and crew boarding the SS Saxonia.
S.S. Saxonia in Liverpool
Filmed at the second inauguration of William McKinley on March 4, 1901, this short captures the president taking the oath of office at the U.S....
President McKinley Taking the Oath
Released in 1901
Steamboat Panorama of Oberhofen
Scenes of the King's arrival and departure at the Palace of Westminster.
King Edward VII Opens His First Parliament
A magician does tricks with the aid of his assistant, the Human Pump.
The Prince of Magicians
Koninklijke Bruidstoet en de Huwelijksplechtigheid
Stage star Anna Held (1872-1918) riffs on her once-famous scene from the comedy Papa's Wife (1899-1901) featuring a naif getting tipsy on her first...
Anna Held
1901 film of the Mer de Glace, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.
Eagleswing Panorama of the Mer de Glace
