Most Viewed Year 1901 - 10

This film recreates the arrest of Thomas Goudie, a bank employee who embezzled £170,000 to pay gambling debts, using the real locations. It...

An adaptation of the biblical story.

Shows a tramp enter and try to ride a wheel, from which he makes some very ludicrous falls and gives up in despair, after which an artist enters and...

One long traveling shot through a sea front lined with tourists, workers, and sundry others.

Documentation of an audience watching a puppeteer working in a booth.

These mesmerising scenes were captured outside soap and chemical manufacturers William M. Gossage and Sons. Located on the west Bank of the St...

Here we present probably the most interesting and valuable picture of the McKinley funeral series. Our camera is located opposite the McKinley home...

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...

A great feature of the Pan-American Exposition, as unanimously conceded by all visitors, was the electric illumination of the Exposition grounds at...

A short film

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

Part of BFI collection "Tales From the Shipyard".

Lost short comedy film by Georges Méliès

This picture was photographed immediately after the shooting, and shows the intense excitement of the people...

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...

Cavalry and foot-soldiers escort President McKinley.

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

Documentary filmed by Fructuoso Gelabert at the Spanish coast.

A short documentary registering the meeting between two aviation pioneers: the Brazilian Santos Dumont and the Briton Charles Rolls. In it, Dumont...

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...