1903 Movies

Firemen on roof playing hose. Smoke & ladder visible. Pan across ground level of gutted building with some posters visible.

A group of policemen marching up and down in front of a static camera for a couple of minutes.

Madison Square, New York, is shown just after the turn of the century. There is normal traffic consisting of streetcars and horse drawn vehicles.

A static shot of a river disguised as a very big puddle. The film is about a minute long, and for probably fifty seconds of that one minute we gaze bl...

The first scene appears to have been taken on a main thoroughfare of large city. In the immediate foreground is a horse-drawn U.S. mail vehicle waitin...

A delightful picture full of typical interest. Sicilian women and children are washing in a brook. (Taken on the winter cruise of the S. S. "Auguste V...

Showing six black French poodle pups jumping over a plank to get at their dinner and then eating voraciously.

A man in a plaid suit with a lantern hung around his neck comes out on stage, followed by another man who also carries a lantern. They turn as if to v...

A horse parade.

The film begins across the street from some young boys who are lined up against a curbing eating spaghetti or macaroni. The only other action occurs w...

A bunch of men strolling across a bridge.

A blind beggar sees a coin is false and hits the donor with his wooden leg.

Single shot panning across a landscape. Edison films, 1903.

Produced by Sociéte A. Lumière (1400)

Firemen are awakened by an alarm, drive through London and rescue fire victims.

Film of a royal visit to Ireland, by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. Appears on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion"

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Presumably the woman is Betsy Ross, and she's quite a pretty woman with tumbling dark hair and coltish legs. She dances energetically, but it all look...

An elegent parade shot.

Shows a number of young men and women playing leap-frog. The men stoop over and the girls jump upon their backs and are bounced until they fall off. T...