The best movies 1900

Cléo de Merode dancing the gavotte in 1900.

Woman dances the polka.

In a charming dining room a very attractive young lady is seen seated at the table, evidently waiting for the caller who is to share a quiet little...

Alberto Santos Dumont flies one of his dirigibles.

A group of tambours and dancers in traditional outfits pass the camera.

The movie consists solely of a saber fight. Bernhardt plays a cross-gender Hamlet, and Pierre Magnier is her fellow duelist, Laertes. A few...

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

A ballet teacher trains a invisible group of dancers and gets angry about their incompetence. Early film with sound.

Panorama of the Swiss city.

Scene from the second act of The Prince of Wales Theatre production.

Man and woman dance.

Comic scenes taken at the Nouveau-Cirque by the two famous clowns Foottit and Chocolat. To separate Foottit and Chocolat who are fighting, their...

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

One of Alberto Santos Dumont's dirigibles is led out of a hangar.

The fairy at a cabbage patch hovers over the babies. This is a remake of Guy's 1896 film on the same subject, this time shot in 35 mm.

A landlady is taunted by neighborhood kids.

A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other. The director of this film is not credited in any contemporary catalogues...

Footage from the dawn of film taken in Belle Époque-era Paris, France from 1896-1900.

Shots of the panorama, filmed from the winding railroad tracks that stretch along the coast, from Beaulieu to Monaco, including tunnel passages.

One of Alberto Santos Dumont's dirigibles is led out of a hangar.

Produced by Casa Lepage, it is the first appearance of tango in the cinema, as it contains brief scenes in which the dancer El Negro Agapito...

Brazilian President Manuel Ferraz de Campos Salles visits Argentina in 1900.

Spanish lost film about Valencian traditions directed by Ángel García Cardona.

Several painters unsuccessfully try to paint something on a canvas. A man enters the scene and with a single brushstroke achieves a huge sign that...

Spanish lost film directed by Ángel García Cardona. There is, however, a fragment that could correspond to this film.

Spanish lost film about the Valencian carnival directed by Ángel García Cardona.