The best movies 1900

Alberto Santos Dumont flies one of his dirigibles.

Cléo de Merode dancing the gavotte in 1900.

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.

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

Woman dances the polka.

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

This 10 second fragment is available in flipbook format, otherwise lost.

Characters from a large magic book come to life.

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

From behind a curtain three men appear on screen. The first wears a combination of tuxedo and kilt. The second wears a Scottish kilt and holds a...

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

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...

Panorama of the Swiss city.

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

This film is part of the Mitchell and Kenyon collection - an amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth...

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

A prince gets the help of a fairy to aid in his conflict with a wizard.

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

Singing "La Chanson du tambour-major"