1901 Movies

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

In recording this scene the position of our camera was an excellent one, and we present to the public a most perfect picture of the train’s arrival. The engine is decorated with crepe to mark the solemnity of this great historical event. As the train stops at...

A wizard conjures the body parts of a young woman and covers them with a white cloth. With a wave of his wand and an incantation, the body parts join together, and up jumps a young woman in a white leotard.

In this picture there is a limited amount of action in the pose. As the curtains are drawn aside the shell appears shut. It gradually opens, disclosing the model curled up in a recumbent position. She slowly arises as if awakening, and gracefully assumes the f...

Shot at the intersection of Holy Corner in Liverpool, this street is a hive of people and traffic. Arguably during the first part of this century most trade was being conducted on the streets. When this was being filmed Liverpool had become a wealthy city, and...

This is a news actuality film of the former Commander in Chief of the Boer War, Lord Roberts, visiting Manchester to much hoopla.

A very short, simple trick film with some pool divers in reverse.

A conjuror appears to demonstrate a lady with three heads.

Shows two lovers in a hammock. Two bad boys appear. One of them climbs into a tree and scrambles out on an overhanging branch, directly over the happy pair. Just as the love-making reaches a climax, the branch breaks. The boy falls into the hammock, the hammoc...

The wife gets up, runs to the clock and seeing the time, hurriedly awakens her husband. They will miss the train. In their hurry they cannot find their clothes, madam starts to put on her vest when it immediately changes to the husband's pants, the same happen...

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

A Country school room is first seen in this picture in which so many startling changes take place that the Master is bewildered and is driven mad by the antics of his satanic majesty. Satan performs a number of weird tricks on the of a Cabinet placed in the re...

An allegory film based on the familiar painting 'Rock of Ages' by Johannes Adam Simon Oertel. The film is a superimposition of a 1896 film, "Upper Rapids, from Bridge" and the imagery of a woman clinging to a stone cross, filmed at Biograph's studio. The Ediso...

Prominent people at a funeral.

Here, as in the other pictures, we secured a most advantageous location, and we present a life size view of the casket containing the body of President McKinley as it is slowly and carefully taken from the window of the car which bore it from the Capitol to Ca...

A small battalion of Yorkshire schoolchildren lines up for a playground photograph.

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 an engine. Shortly after starting, you plunge into the darkness of the tunnel, afterwards to emerge, and crossi...

Released in 1901.

Released in 1901

French Count Boni de Castellane, objecting to Figaro editor M. F. De Rodays's front-page accusations, rushes to the office of the Paris newspaper, accuses De Roday of libel, and shoots him in the thigh. Afterward, the two men shake hands.