Most Viewed Year 1901 - 11

Studies on human pathological locomotion.

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...

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

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

Before the rise of trade unions and the arrival of the welfare state, membership of a mutual Friendly Society, such as the Oddfellows, provided some...

Lancashire's St Helens, in hooped shirts, visited Cheshire rivals Warrington for this early Edwardian game. As in other Mitchell and Kenyon rugby...

Liverpool was a flourishing, prosperous city in 1901 and this display of English patriotism and civic pride was one of several events in the city...

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...

A short dance film in Pathécolor, also know as stencil colouring. The editing cuts correspond with the dancers' costume changes. More about...

The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York travelled to New Zealand in 1901 to thank New Zealanders for their contribution to the Boer War. Only a...

The scene opens in a beautiful garden scene. St. Elmo appears and proceeds to twist his anatomy into wonderful shapes. Several mysterious changes add...

Bathing Danish beauties.

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

A few days before the Christmas holiday, a large family decides to put on a home-made play as part of their holiday together. The mother writes the...

Exciting scenes of amateur cycling's 'Race of Champions' at Manchester's Fallowfield track.

Here we have recorded a very novel scene, the camera having been placed in the basket of the captive balloon at the Pan-American Exposition...

Did he bowl or did he throw? A fascinating record of an early cricketing controversy.

Edwardian cycling competition.

The picture was taken in the Gypsy tent at the Pan-American Exposition and shows ten beautiful Gypsy girls executing the famous Gypsy dance that...

Outside a fairground cinematograph in Edwardian Lancashire.