.Yl 1900 - 5

Well did you ever? Two women share juicy stories, and enjoyably shocked reaction, over tea.

The fairy at a cabbage patch hovers over the babies. This is a remake of Guy's 1896 film on the same subject, this time shot in 35 mm.

"The Bath" is a flip book remake of After the Ball (Après le Bal) made in the late 1800s.

Photographed February-March, 1898 in Canton, China

This film belongs to the PHONO CINEMA THEATRE programme that ran during the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1900, with synchronized screenings of films and recorded voices of famous actors and singers.

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

A man attempts to shave with a blunt razor.

This picture shows several buildings which were wrecked and also shows a rear view of this hotel, which is on the highest point of land in Galveston, and in which several thousand people were saved.

Tracking shot across a bay showing a large number of fishing boats.

The scene takes place in a fashionable cafe. A well dressed couple enter, and after a careful perusal of the menu, conclude on an order of boiled eggs and Welsh rarebit.

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 sight of a second train rushing out of the tunnel. Both trains are on the same track and traveling toward each other at a high rate of speed. They collide. Cars and engines are smashed into fragments and thrown down the steep incline. (Edison Catalog)

The reception to the future King Edward VII upon his arrival to Edinburgh in 1899.

Yet another Lumiere parade shot.

Panorama of the Swiss city.

A conversation between two gents perks up when the see a picture in a magazine. A 'facial' comedy by GA Smith.

Overview of the Alexandre III bridge during the World Exhibition in Paris.

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.

Four men each hold a large slice of watermelon, and have a race to see who can finish eating first. All four move quickly, but one man seems to be pulling ahead of the others. Soon the contestants begin to hinder one another's efforts.