The best movies 1900 Pagina 2

James White, the Edison Company's main filmmaker at the time, realized a burst of creativity during his visit to the 1900 Paris Exposition. It's...

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...

Trick film. A stage magician transforms a woman into a butterfly and himself into a giant bat. This film is considered lost.

The titles tell us this film is based on an incident in the Boxer Rebellion. A man tries to defend a woman and a large house against Chinese...

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...

In a charming dining room a very attractive young lady is seen seated at the table, evidently waiting for the caller who is to share a quiet little...

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

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

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

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...

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

Near the center of this scene we see the regimental surgeon directing the movements of the Ambulance Corps. Tenderly they pick up the unfortunates...

Parody of an unknown melodrama of the period.

A Thomas Edison film showing a torpedo being shot.

Photographed February-March, 1898 in Canton, China

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...

People gather at the exit of the St. Trophime cathedral in Arles.

Woman dances the polka.