Most Viewed Year 1901

In 1953, in an old cabinet of a former photographer from Zermatt, a first mountaineering film was found. It was a silent film from the first era...

A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.

Film produced by the Warwick Trading Company.

A gilded saloon, with a fancy bar, forms the background. A nobby bartender with white coat and apron is dispensing drinks to customers. Behind him...

A group of miners (including a sole black worker) exits the colliery gates.

A man flies his plane "Fend l'Air" over Paris.

Shot at the intersection of Holy Corner in Liverpool, this street is a hive of people and traffic. Arguably during the first part of this century...

A man, objecting to being filmed, comes closer and closer to the camera lens until his mouth is all we see. Then he opens wide and swallows camera...

A clown performs various feats of magic based on his ability to detach and reattach different parts of his body.

A camera sits on top of a moving train, providing a panoramic view of Ealing (western London) as the train moves.

A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.

Panorama of a mountainside railroad and tunnel.

Firefighters ring for help, and here comes the ladder cart; they hitch a horse to it. A second horse-drawn truck joins the first, and they head down...

Footage from the dawn of film taken by Mitchell and Kenyon in North England, 1901.

In a bakery in the French countryside, Father Latourte, his wife, and their staff are busy with customers, pastries, and baked goods of all kinds....

A lad from a butcher shop is carrying a tray laden with a roast or a leg of lamb. A hobo grabs it and runs. The boy gives chase, joined by dogs, as...