Las Mejores Películas De 1900

Poor Uncle Josh is trying to get to sleep, but being constantly bedevilled by a fellow in red long underwear with horns. A short early trick editing film using a stationary camera much more valuable f...

esta película es un documental sobre el viaje de Muzaffar al-Din Shah Qajar a Bélgica. En el diario de viaje de Muzaffar al-Din Shah, hay un informe que de hecho es el mismo que el texto de esta pelíc...

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 performing a scene from his most famous role. It is acc...

Una película de trucos temprana en la que un automóvil explota y partes siguen cayendo del cielo sobre un espectador.

Possibly the first film to utilize the technique of focus pulling. A man kisses a beautiful and lively woman, then the image blurs and dissolves into a clear image of the man waking up to his nagging ...

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...

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As the camera looks down an open road, a horse and carriage approaches, and passes by to one side of the field of view. Soon afterwards, an automobile comes up the road, straight towards the camera. A...

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A short skit in which vaudeville duo Foottit and Chocolat reenact the Wilhelm Tell routine.

Una gira conmovedora por el animado Southampton de la vuelta del siglo.

A conjurer (along with two duplicates) conjure up (and then cause to vanish) a beautiful woman head-first.

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair, then rises and sits in the next chair. As the cymb...

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

Película de propaganda británica sobre una derrota de los bóer en la Segunda Guerra de los bóer, 27 de febrero de 1900

A prince gets the help of a fairy to aid in his conflict with a wizard.

This film is part of the Mitchell and Kenyon collection - an amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Ambulances and British troops crossing the Tugela River over the pontoon bridge near Trichardt's Drift, during the British retreat from Spion Kop in the Boer War, 25 January 1900.

A man attempts to shave with a blunt razor.

Panorama of a mountainside railroad.

This scene opens by showing a pretty cook mixing bread in the kitchen. Jones comes in unexpectedly from a trip and carries a dress suitcase. He inquires for his wife and is told by the cook that she i...

A woman in ballet slippers wearing a large white hat and a long white dress - with ruffles, puffy sleeves and petticoats - dances across water with roiling waves behind her. She holds the edges of the...

With a crowded arena in the background, a stationary camera records a bull charging a picador astride his horse. An attendant on foot throws stones at the rump of the horse to get it to move. Various ...

Characters from a large magic book come to life.

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

A man misses his train due to his clothes turning into other types of clothes.

An advert by the British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

Southampton High Street, train view

Pasajeros que viajan en camadas en el protectorado francés de Annam

The titles tell us this film is based on an incident in the Boxer Rebellion. A man tries to defend a woman and a large house against Chinese attackers. They attack with swords, guns, and paddles. He's...

Stairs from the Pont de l'Alma.

A dancer personifying Winter, dances in the snow.

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

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Warships, UK and Germany

1900 Gaumont version of the ubiquitous Serpentine dance, this one hand tinted. Filmmaker anonymous.

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

A decapitated cook wreaks havoc on his kitchen.

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other.

A turn-of-the-last-century hand-tinted short, which features two women, Miss Lally and Miss Julyett, dancing at a ball. By the legendary French filmmaker Alice Guy.

Los niños del barrio se burlan de una portera.

Un niño toma prestada la lupa de su abuela para mirar un anuncio de periódico de Bovril, un reloj y luego un pájaro. El niño le muestra a la abuela lo que está haciendo.. El niño mira a continuación a...

A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.

A one minute short in which limbless Nikolai Kobelkoff demonstrates a series of seemingly mundane tasks.

George Mélies made a version of this a few years later, often titled Une Indigestion, but Guy-Blaché’s earlier film Chirurgie Fin de Siecle (1900) is more widely available. And it’s not one to watch t...

A magician stuffs eight of his lovely assistants into a barrel.