1900

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows 1900

poster R.F.D., 10,000 B.C.
R.F.D., 10,000 B.C.
(2.9/5)
13mn - Animation
Set in prehistoric times, this short film was created for the Edison Company by Willis H. O'Brien, a pioneer of American stop-motion animation.
poster What's the World Coming To?
What's the World Coming To?
21mn - Comedy
Short comedy which posits that in a hundred years men's styles will revert to Regency garb, and that there will be a complete gender role reversal, with husband Clyde Cook staying home alone while wife Ka…
poster Mixed Babies
Mixed Babies
8mn - Comedy
poster Dr. Macintyre's X-Ray Film
Dr. Macintyre's X-Ray Film
1mn - Documentary
The first X-ray cinematograph film ever taken, shown by Dr. MacIntyre at the London Royal Society (1896 and 1909). X-ray pictures of a frog knee joint, a beating human heart and movements of the stomach.
poster The Kiss
The Kiss
1mn - Romance
"Nothing new, but an old thing done over again and done well. Some one has attempted to describe a kiss as "something made of nothing," but this is not one of that kind, but one of those old fashioned "ho…
poster Il biglietto da mille
Il biglietto da mille
16mn -
A film from the SocietĂ  Anonima Ambrosio company.
poster His Mother's Thanksgiving
His Mother's Thanksgiving
15mn - Drama, Family
This holiday-themed melodrama released by Edison Studios in 1910 concerns Robert, a young man who leaves his mother’s home in New England to forge a career in the big city. When he achieves “fame and fort…
poster European Rest Cure
European Rest Cure
(2.7/5)
13mn - Comedy
An over-the-hill American tourist has a terrible time on his European "rest cure" vacation.
poster Police in the Year 2000
Police in the Year 2000
5mn - Comedy, Sci-Fi
From a futuristic airship, the French police stop crime, arrest criminals, and catch dogs without touching the ground. (MoMA)
poster A Hand Shake
A Hand Shake
1mn -
William K.L. Dickson and William Heise shake hands in this early experimental film.
poster Déchargement d’un navire
Déchargement d’un navire
(2.8/5)
1mn - Documentary
A shot of a ship that is being unloaded.
poster The Making of an American
The Making of an American
14mn -
Docudrama encouraging immigrants to master English and become successful, assimilated Americans.
poster The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
(3.6/5)
132mn - Drama, War
Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Fo…
poster Panorama du grand Canal pris d'un bateau
Panorama du grand Canal pris d'un bateau
1mn - Documentary
The first travelling shot.
poster The Electric Hotel
The Electric Hotel
(3.3/5)
9mn - Fantasy, Animation
An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.
poster An Over-Incubated Baby
An Over-Incubated Baby
1mn - Sci-Fi, Comedy
An up to date idea and a great picture. The professor sits in his laboratory with his newly invented baby incubator. A mother who is anxious for the growth of her child enters, places her baby in care of …
poster DĂ©part de cyclistes
DĂ©part de cyclistes
(2.8/5)
1mn - Documentary
At the start line of the Lyon-Geneva bicycle race.
poster Carmencita
Carmencita
1mn - Documentary
The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United States. In the film, Carmencita is recorded going through…
poster Long Distance Wireless Photography
Long Distance Wireless Photography
6mn - Sci-Fi, Comedy
Into a photography studio full of large fantastic machines steps an elderly couple. The bearded proprietor explains the equipment and gives them a demonstration: he starts machines whirring, and projects …
poster Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
(2.7/5)
1mn - Documentary
A man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the second motion picture to be copyrighted in the United States.
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