1902 Movies

Northern Union game from 1902

The Six Dainef Sisters come onto stage and perform several acrobatic tricks before taking a bow and leaving stage together.

The chaos and charm of Edwardian street life is captured to great effect here as young lads throng this West Midlands street. 'The pictures we are tak...

1902 French short produced by Parnaland.

This is a short, simple ballet performance. Colors are used here, but the print is quite badly damaged.

A stage event of Acrobatic performance with Harry and Alaska.

A lively crowd surround the camera filming a tram leaving Wigan Market Place.

A beautiful shot of a locomotive billowing smoke begins this very evocative film. As the train pulls in to the terminus the camera is positioned behin...

This picture shows the prisoners after completing their day's work of cleaning up the grounds of the Charleston Exposition, taking their positions alo...

It's not easy to view these beguiling scenic shots without burdening them with our knowledge of history. The pivotal site of Irish emigration, Queenst...

Little Miss Lillian is Lillian Graham, billed as the youngest prima ballerina in the world. She appears in four different costumes, doing four dances,...

A bracing fight scene

A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.

The bicycle was still a novelty at the beginning of the 20th century. At the Villa Belle Rive in Cannes, the Lavanchy-Clarke family engage with it cyc...

This is one of nine films in the Mitchell and Kenyon collection relating to this momentous exhibition, a key moment in Cork's early 20th century histo...

An interesting counterpart to Mitchell and Kenyon's extensive coverage of the human visitors to the 1902 Cork Exhibition, this film instead consists o...

One of the most interesting pictures in the series showing how the ice is taken up from the canal by machinery and run into ice houses, each of which...

Short film showing workers walking past the camera while leaving Cardini's iron furniture factory located in La Rioja Av, San Cristobal neighborhood i...

These slightly weary-looking soldiers, just back from South Africa, were perhaps only temporarily housed in their Cork barracks before a well-earned r...

Amenity documentary featuring scenes of visitor interaction with the animals at the Jardín Zoológico Municipal Parque Pereira Rossell, known as Zoo de...