Most Viewed Year 1901 - 7

The great geyser at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. c. 1901.

Girl gives spoonful of milk to kitten. (Cut-in close-up) [The British Film Catalogue]

An adaptation of the biblical story.

Jeffries walks into his gymnasium at Oakland, Cal., accompanied by Billy Delaney, and begins exercising with the heavy weights. The view was taken...

A short film

Footage from the dawn of film taken by Mitchell and Kenyon in North England, 1901.

James J. Jeffries throwing the medicine ball. An absolutely perfect picture of the champion heavyweight of the world.

A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.

A most perfect picture of the Pan-American Exposition buildings, including the Electric Tower and Temple of Music, as they appear at night.

This is an extraordinary window on to the heart of cosmopolitan Shanghai, over a hundred years ago, featuring a Nanjing Road bustling with crowds of...

A few people swimming.

Prominent people at a funeral.

Female graduates and gents sporting spectacular Edwardian whiskers take part in Birmingham’s first Degree Day ceremony.

Lost short comedy film by Georges Méliès

Another fine picture of the champion going through his side-stepping tactics which have made him famous. The picture ends with a wrestling bout with...

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...

In this picture we present a wonderful and life-like likeness of President McKinley.

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

A pretty and natural picture in which the principal actors are two tiny tots who are evidently not a bit afraid of the briny deep as they splash...

“The picture [shows] a number of Esquimaux picking nickels from cracks in a board with their dog whips, in which sport they are very expert. In...