Foottit et Chocolat, I. Boxeurs 1900
George Footit & Rafael Patodos starts fighting.
George Footit & Rafael Patodos starts fighting.
An early short with a self-explanatory title.
Two sets of images are superimposed. From the side, we see a two-masted ship. Across the deck walks a skeleton. It sits down, its legs akimbo. The legs separate and continue a dance while the body of the skeleton faces us and the skull moves its jaw bone. It rises and the legs rejoin the skull and body for an additional jig back and forth on deck.
A white cat is placed on a horse's back, with trainer and two other onlookers. c1900.
A short film screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato 2020 and believed to have been directed by Georges Méliès.
Footage from the dawn of film taken in Belle Époque-era Paris, France from 1896-1900.
Naval ratings pulling along naval guns during the Boer War.
Taken from a music hall sketch of Lewin Fitzhamon and advertised as 'Two minutes of white hot excitement taking place on the open veldt.
Recording of the dance Mesdemoiselles Lally and Juliette from the Olympia.
Woman sings.
Woman sings.
People gather at the exit of the St. Trophime cathedral in Arles.
The launching of the ship Varèse in Livourne.
Visitors come and go to the thermal springs of Le Mont-Dore. Some are wrapped up in warm garments, some arrive in palanquins.
A prince gets the help of a fairy to aid in his conflict with a wizard.
"A series of admirable living pictures, posed by competent artists, and faithfully representing well-known art masterpieces, notably the works of Sarony. At the opening of each picture, curtains are thrown aside by two pages, the picture remains for a short interval in complete repose, and the curtains are drawn. In other words, these living pictures are shown exactly as in first-class vaudeville theatres, and were prepared with equal care." Series was finished by 1903 and the films were shown as one presentation.
A Lumière Brothers short film.
Photographed February-March, 1898 in Canton, China
Well did you ever? Two women share juicy stories, and enjoyably shocked reaction, over tea.