Most Viewed Year 1901 - 3

An Edwardian football match at Newcastle's St James' Park ground.

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

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

Using a blue tint to set the scene under the sea, this is a short, surprisingly violent film where two divers fight to the death with axes over some...

Panorama of a mountainside railroad and tunnel.

A man flies his plane "Fend l'Air" over Paris.

Lost short comedy film by Georges Méliès

A female impersonator giggles and flirts. By the following decade, many female impersonators would be shown doing their acts on the stage and in the...

Women getting on and riding Tehran-Rey railway tram.

First comes the Chief's sleigh with old-fashioned side runners, containing the Chief and his driver. Next comes a chemical engine mounted on a stout...

A companion picture to No. 1964 ('Cutting Sugar Cane' (1901) (q.v.)), and equally interesting. Honolulu, Hawaii.

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...

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...

President McKinley taking the Oath.

Special effects film with a train double exposed on the negative, creating a ghostly image.

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...

The stage of a vaudeville theatre. A lady in evening costume is performing on a trapeze. Two Rubes are seated in a box. The lady begins to disrobe,...

A magician's hat offers many surprises.