Most Viewed Year 1901

A gilded saloon, with a fancy bar, forms the background. A nobby bartender with white coat and apron is dispensing drinks to customers. Behind him...

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

Shows a bedroom in a hotel. On the wall of the room is a conspicuous sign "Don't blow out the gas." A hayseed enters the room, accompanied by a...

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

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

As the above title indicates, the scene does not take place in an ordinary restaurant, but one in which all natural rules of order and gravitation...

A clown performs various feats of magic based on his ability to detach and reattach different parts of his body.

A group of miners (including a sole black worker) exits the colliery gates.

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

A temperance society decries the demon drink on the streets of Edwardian Manchester.

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

The cook has trouble lighting the stove, so she adds kerosene, with explosive results.

A scene from Charles Dickens' Bleak House.

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

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...

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...

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...