1903 Movies

It is to laugh. Just see this picture and split your sides with laughter. A large head of enormous proportions faces the audience, and makes grimaces...

Male letter carriers of the U.S. Post Office are the subject of this series on the Postal Department. The camera was placed to show a large number of...

American Mutoscope & Biograph made a whole series of these films covering everything from the mail being collected from post boxes to being delivered...

Taken from the front end of a locomotive following an express train at high speed around the high curves of the Ninth Avenue Elevated, from the 104th...

The film depict elephants hard at work, moving logs and performing other back-breaking labor under the watchful eyes of their handlers.

This film shows a mechanical ride in an amusement park, designed to allow customers to ride down an undulating incline astride wooden horses. Several...

From left to right, we see the heads of several well-known people performed by actor Henri Plessis.

This short film from the Corrick Collection by the Corrick Family Entertainers features documentary footage taken in Singapore.

A thief steals an angler's bicycle but being surprised by the police he rides into the water, his pursuers jump in after him, but as they do so, he sp...

The USS Indiana stages a rescue operation of a crewman that's fallen overboard.

Three women in pajamas dance for the camera.

A number of boys are engaged in a tub race. They are lined up in a row, and the fun begins from the start. Some of the tubs upset and give the boys a...

Siegmund Lubin's 1903 film survives and is the only vestige of Lubin's myriad attempts at coordinating sound and film extant today. With words by Howa...

A man and his wife are seated at a table in their happy New Jersey home. A huge mosquito appears and buzzes about their heads. The man seizes a broom...

Two men spot a couple of dressed mannequins standing outside a tailor shop. As a joke, they move them into a public urinal (vespasienne). One by one,...

The mistress of a country home is going about inspecting the work done by her servant, when she discovers dust on the railing surrounding the porch, a...

A Postman Picking up Mail

A man puts up a poster, which turns out to be someones window.

This shows an acrobatic team performing on a revolving flying ring unit suspended between the towers at Luna Park.

Several rowing boats with tourists going to the shore of Capri.