Most Viewed Year 1901

A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.

A man, objecting to being filmed, comes closer and closer to the camera lens until his mouth is all we see. Then he opens wide and swallows camera...

A street level view from the sidewalk, looking along the length of 23rd Street. Following actuality footage of pedestrians and street traffic, the...

A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.

In 1901 people in Belfast paid their tram drivers in carrots.

A convicted criminal dreams about his past the night before his execution.

A very enthusiastic magician performs several tricks.

Time-lapse photography showing the one month-long demolition of the Star Theatre in New York.

Firefighters ring for help, and here comes the ladder cart; they hitch a horse to it. A second horse-drawn truck joins the first, and they head down...

Pathé film number 380, also known as "What Happened to the Inquisitive Janitor" (US) and "Peeping Tom" (UK). It should not be confused with...

A satire on the way that audiences unaccustomed to the cinema didn't know how to react to the moving images on a screen - in this film, an...

At the beginning of the scene Romeo in his gondola sings to Juliet a sentimental song, then goes away. Hardly has he departed when the colonnade...

A man attempts to engender a transformation of a giant worm into a butterfly.

A sorceress conjures up a bevy of beauties for a bachelor to peruse.

A magician explores two halves of his self: The Dwarf and the Giant.

President McKinley taking the Oath.

The scene opens in the bedroom of Mr. Nation, husband of the famous Carrie Nation, the “Kansas Saloon Smasher”. Mr. Nation suddenly...

This early docudrama shows Auburn Prison and recreates the electrocution of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley of the United States.

A scene from Charles Dickens' Bleak House.

A magician does tricks with the aid of his assistant, the Human Pump.