Year 1900 - 17
The Midnight Son 1900
Chez le Photographe 1900
Hi-jinx with a clown photographer
Train Load of C.I.V.s Leaving Southampton 1900
Back in Blighty - after fighting in the Boer War, these volunteer soldiers are heading home to London and Middlesex
Washing Up And Blacking Up 1900
Two comedians are washing at basins. One covers himself in white soap lather, but slyly gives blacking to his fellow, who applies vigorously.
Torpedo Explosion 1900
An explosive bit of early war film. These two exciting snippets were potentially part of a much larger action extravaganza. Originating from Alfred West's early blockbuster (two million people had seen it screened at Regent Street - by West's own count), they may have come from a series called 'Our Navy At War'. As the catalogue boasts, "It was shown... before an audience consisting of Naval officers and men from the various ships, who spoke in the highest praise of the truthfulness and realism of the various scenes." These excerpts are perhaps from the film described thus: "There is a terrific explosion. The battle rages in detail."
Vaulting Horse Display 1900
An astonishing display of synchronised gymnastics. The looping, synchronised vaults on display here are truly mesmerising - thanks both to the skill of the gymnasts and the shrewd positioning of the camera. Military and athletic displays were a popular subject for film from its earliest days, and this demonstration works as visual spectacle and study of movement.
Embarquement Dans Les Canots 1900
“Same scenery as in the previous view, the sailors embark in the canoes which take them ashore.”
Course Landaise, I 1900
In an arena, a Landes race scene with cows.
Kruger's Dream of Empire 1900
British fictional propaganda film on a Boer defeat in the Second Boer War, 27th February 1900
Savage South Africa - Savage Attack and Repulse 1900
This striking film re-stages an episode from the Matabele wars between African natives and British infantry
Shelling the Red Cross 1900
A Boer throws a bomb into the British Red Cross tent and wounds a nurse.
Another Demonstration of the Cliff-Guibert Fire Horse Reel, Showing a Young Girl Coming from an Office, Detaching Hose, Running with It 60 Feet, and Playing a Stream, All Inside of 30 Seconds 1900
It is worthy of note that the film can be watched in a shorter amount of time than it takes to to say the film's title.
Attack on a Mission Station 1900
A couple is attacked by warriors.
Massacre of the Christians by the Chinese 1900
Reenactment of a scene from the Boxer Rebellion.
Nice : le char des berceuses et de la chanson 1900
Elaborate floats and costumes parading the streets of Nice.
Le vieux Paris: Vue prise en bateau 1900
Paris seen from a boat, in this Lumière short film.
Pau : la terrasse 1900
A short film from the Lumière brothers showing crowds walking.
