1901 Movies

The President is seen on the reviewing stand at the Stadium, escorted by President Milburn, of the Pan-American Exposition...

Female graduates and gents sporting spectacular Edwardian whiskers take part in Birmingham’s first Degree Day ceremony.

Lost comedy short film by Georges Méliès.

The scene opens showing Reuben and his best girl looking for a quiet place to spoon. A photographer enters and suggests taking their pictures.

On 28 January 1901 the great musician Giuseppe Verdi died from the consequences of a stroke that had struck him six days earlier. These very rare imag...

Stage star Anna Held (1872-1918) riffs on her once-famous scene from the comedy Papa's Wife (1899-1901) featuring a naif getting tipsy on her first ch...

Here, as in the other pictures, we secured a most advantageous location, and we present a life size view of the casket containing the body of Presiden...

A female impersonator giggles and flirts. By the following decade, many female impersonators would be shown doing their acts on the stage and in the m...

At a building being constructed at Broadway and 13th Street in Manhattan, a boom or crane from which a platform is suspended on a cable first pulls th...

A rare glimpse of early Edwardian Manchester when the horse-drawn tram still reigned supreme.

This wonderful dog "Mannie," owned by the vaudeville star, Miss Laura Comstock, is a most learned animal. He has been trained to perform all sorts of...

A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.

Larking about during Church Lads' Brigade drill and parade in Morecambe.

Outside a fairground cinematograph in Edwardian Lancashire.

Persons who have visited the "Hub," no doubt carried away with vivid recollections of Boston's famous system of Underground Transportation and this fi...

A young man's telephone call to his sweetheart is intercepted by her father, who beats him with his umbrella.

This scene was taken shortly after the completion of the railroad in 1899. The impression received by the audience is that of riding on the pilot of a...

Passengers and crew boarding the SS Saxonia.

Photographed: August 19, 1901. Location: Broadway and 14th Street, New York, N.Y. Duration: 0:22 at 15 fps. Biograph production no. 2264. Descript...