سال 1900 - 20

Shot in 1900, the film is of Elizabeth Yates, a trailblazing woman elected Mayor of Onehunga in 1893 – just a few weeks after New Zealand women became the first in the world to win suffrage and the right to vote in a general election. Created by Enos Pegler for the Zealandia Living Picture Company, the film is a re-enactment – most likely of a speech Yates gave to the local council. Lacking sufficient lighting technology, many early films were filmed outdoors on a set made to look like it’s inside. This film is no exception – look closely and you will see the ‘walls’ are blowing in the breeze.

A panoramic bird's-eye view of Paris and the Exposition. Taken from a captive balloon, the camera being pointed downward so that the exact effect is obtained that one would have in looking over the side car of a balloon. The figures of the people below are mere dots, and the buildings are seen in complete groups.

This 270-degree panorama in England starts on Bristol's iconic suspension bridge - an engineering triumph designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The camera pans round, taking in views of the cliffs and the Avon gorge before returning to its point of origin.

The famous Polytechnic Harriers, one of Britain’s premier athletic clubs, who would later open the 1908 London Olympics, running a paper chase – a gruelling cross-country race in which the “hares” lay a paper trail for the “hounds”.

The parade of carriages, costumed riders, and exotic animals passing over the bridge at Inverness, Scotland, has attracted a crowd, despite the rain.

Dam Square in Amsterdam, bustling with pedestrians and horse trams.

Pennsylvania's historic Horseshoe Curve, photographed by an Edison cameraman in 1900.

unknown director

Spanish lost film directed by Ángel García Cardona. There is, however, a fragment that could correspond to this film.

A "lady" undresses for bed.

Guy with a Handkerchief

Two men lose it laughing at something in a magazine

A couple of clowns try to ride a pennyfarthing around a stage, while fighting.

This British Bioscope short from 1900 is a crackerjack piece, on an order with 1903's FIREBOAT 'NEW YORKER' ANSWERING AN ALARM. It's little more than a perfectly framed picture of the Odin slowly leaving harbor, with all her guns ablaze in the roiling clouds and flashes of cordite.

“The filmmaker took several different scenes shot earlier between 1896 and 1899 and double-printed two sets of images together to create a new artistic creation. The transformation of a stage dance into a unique ciné-dance could only be possible in cinema - Bruce Posner

A short film

A scene takes place in front of a cafe; only one performer.

In the early days of films, most regional film showings happened at the fairground. The Travelling Cinematograph of Bioscope was a popular attraction, so it is no wonder that a camera was on hand to record this salvage operation. The film shows a Burrell's Showman's Road Locomotive - used for hauling fairground equipment from site to site - being rescued from a ditch. The sophistication of the shot sequencing suggests either a later filming date than 1900, or at the very least some fortuitous in-camera editing. As a record of an incident of life on the road for the early champions of film, it is invaluable.

It's a demolition derby, as two giant industrial chimneys come crashing down to earth. Although this is dynamite footage, no explosives are used - the chimneys are shored up by pit props which are then set aflame. The scurrying figures from the base of the chimney in the first scene offer a real sense of the scale of events.