Le duel d'Hamlet

Le duel d'Hamlet 1900

5.28

The movie consists solely of a saber fight. Bernhardt plays a cross-gender Hamlet, and Pierre Magnier is her fellow duelist, Laertes. A few bystanders, in Rennaissance dress, stand off to the right of the screen, and in the background, next to a painted backdrop.

1900

Brook Trout Fishing

Brook Trout Fishing 1900

4.50

Muskoka Lake District, Canada. Beautiful picture, showing a man casting a fly, getting a strike, and landing the trout.

1900

Champs de Mars

Champs de Mars 1900

5.42

Shows all the prominent buildings on this thoroughfare, ending with a close view of the base of the Eiffel Tower, with the Trocadero Palace in the background.

1900

Little Tich (and his Big Boots)

Little Tich (and his Big Boots) 1900

8.00

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.

1900

A Raid on a Chinese Opium Joint

A Raid on a Chinese Opium Joint 1900

1

A Chinese man lures a white girl into his den and teaches her to smoke opium. Police raid the place in a nick of time and arrest him.

1900

Solser and Hesse

Solser and Hesse 1900

1

Solser en Hesse was a short Dutch silent film featuring the comedians Lion Solser and Piet Hesse. the film was first distributed in the Netherlands by 'Edison's Ideal' in 1900, and second film starring the two men and under the same name was released in 1906 by 'The Royal Bioscope'. Both films are lost.

1900

Tourists Starting for Canton

Tourists Starting for Canton 1900

3.00

Shows a party of English people in their chairs. This is the only safe way of getting about in Canton, as the streets are indescribably filthy.

1900

Two Laughing Men

Two Laughing Men 1900

1

Two men lose it laughing at something in a magazine

1900

Japanese Masquerade

Japanese Masquerade 1900

1

Spanish lost film about the Valencian carnival directed by Ángel García Cardona.

1900