1903 Movies

In September 1903 the ferry line between Gedser in Denmark and Warnemünde in Germany was opened. The images are from the opening of the route which in...

Shot at an unidentified location in New York City, the film shows several pieces of horse-drawn fire vehicles in motion: two hook-and-ladders; two ste...

The scene is an excavation pit at an unidentified New York City construction site. A crew of six men can be seen shoveling dirt into a four-wheeled wo...

Whilst two furniture removers are hard at work, a young cook's apprentice amuses himself by squirting water at them as they pass with a little pump wh...

It is unnecessary to describe this picture, as the story is well-known to both old and young. We tell the story just as it is written, and temperance...

Yet another in a vast series of films made by American Mutoscope & Biograph for the United States Postal Service which demonstrated all aspects of the...

A film about workers leaving a factory.

The camera is there on the crowded beach, and curious onlookers stare openly as it pans around them.

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

The film opens with a man standing at the brow of a hill looking off to his left as a black man pushing a cart passes behind him in the other directio...

A curious incident which happens in early summer when the cattle are taken to the high pastures for three months.

Two opium smokers in a bunk bed yank on each other's queues until the bunk crashes, sending them rolling about on the floor.

Several balloons in the sky above New York.

9 ladies dance.

The U.S.S. "Indiana" in action. Filmed by American Mutoscope & Biograph on November 11, 1903 in Glen Island, NY.

This opens with a view of the upper falls and great viaduct of the mountain railway, showing ascending and descending cars, and then a close view of t...

Two comic characters, Jack Jags and Dum Dum, perform slapstick comedy on stage.

A documentary film covering the Delhi Durbar held in 1903 to mark the coronation of King Edward VII. It includes footage of Lord Curzon, the then Vice...

The ride known as Shoot the Chutes was first introduced in 1895 by inventor Captain Paul Boyton at Sea Lion Park, the first enclosed outdoor amusement...

Princess Marie (1865-1909),born Princess of Orléans, great granddaughter of the French King Ludvig-Filip (1773-1850),who was king of France 1830-184...