The best movies 1900 Pagina 2

This picture shows the young cadets going through their daily exercises and drill, and is full of life, and photographically perfect.

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair,...

Comic scenes taken at the Nouveau-Cirque by the two famous clowns Foottit and Chocolat. To separate Foottit and Chocolat who are fighting, their...

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.

Chinese passengers make their way down the wharf. Two chair bearers are soliciting fares, but without any success.

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

Parody of an unknown melodrama of the period.

A group of tambours and dancers in traditional outfits pass the camera.

Filmed off the coast of Rhode Island, this Edison short takes place on the U.S. torpedo boat Morris as we see some men loading up a torpedo that is...

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

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.

“Showing the entire height of this wonderful structure from the base of the dome and return, with the great Paris Exposition in the background,...

White’s camera offers several 360-degree pans of views of the fairground, then amazes by tilting up and down the Eiffel Tower, and concludes...

A panoramic shot, making a full circle, at the 1900 Paris Exposition. It begins and ends looking at the front of the Palace of Electricity. As it...

Two bad boys enter the kitchen. One climbs to the kitchen table and takes down the old lamp, the other goes to the flour barrel and scoops out some...

A crew of railroad workmen are busy along the tracks of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. When the Black Diamond Express appears in the distance, they...

The title pretty much tells you all there is to know about this Edison film. It runs a very brief 27-seconds and shows a torpedo hitting its target...

The film is a panorama shot-scene lasting just under a minute. The panorama film, as coined by Lumière, is a moving-camera shot--usually...