1901 Movies

The film shows a parade down Fifth Avenue, New York. In the foreground many children, both black and white, can be seen following alongside the parade...

In a bakery in the French countryside, Father Latourte, his wife, and their staff are busy with customers, pastries, and baked goods of all kinds. The...

A rare glimpse of early Edwardian Manchester when the horse-drawn tram still reigned supreme.

A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.

This wonderful dog "Mannie," owned by the vaudeville star, Miss Laura Comstock, is a most learned animal. He has been trained to perform all sorts of...

Larking about during Church Lads' Brigade drill and parade in Morecambe.

Outside a fairground cinematograph in Edwardian Lancashire.

Girls gut herring on the quay at North Shields while a Showman tries to stir up trouble.

This clip shows part of the official parade for the Inauguration of the Commonwealth on 1 January 1901 as it passes through the temporary gate built e...

As a man removes his clothes to bathe, more reappear on him.

A peasant refuses to help a poor old woman to carry a bundle of wood. The old woman transforms to a beautiful fairy seated in a magnificent chariot an...

Stage star Anna Held (1872-1918) riffs on her once-famous scene from the comedy Papa's Wife (1899-1901) featuring a naif getting tipsy on her first ch...

In the center of the ring the trainer forms a pile of baskets many feet in height. Greyhounds leap in rapid succession, forming a graceful arch and la...

Excursions in the mountains of a group of riders.

The President is seen on the reviewing stand at the Stadium, escorted by President Milburn, of the Pan-American Exposition...

A young man's telephone call to his sweetheart is intercepted by her father, who beats him with his umbrella.

This scene was taken shortly after the completion of the railroad in 1899. The impression received by the audience is that of riding on the pilot of a...

Photographed: August 19, 1901. Location: Broadway and 14th Street, New York, N.Y. Duration: 0:22 at 15 fps. Biograph production no. 2264. Descript...