Most Viewed Year 1903

The story of Jesus Christ, from the proclamation of His Nativity to His Ascension into heaven. Impressive staging and beautiful hand-coloring...

After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit...

Amusing cake walk of three men and two women (colored) in costume, showing the usual antics that occur in affairs of this kind.

Two impish clowns construct a magic lantern. They prop it up at an angle, and use it to project pictures onto a wall. When the picture show ends,...

A stationary camera looks on as two dapper gents play a game of chess. One drinks and smokes, and when he looks away, his opponent moves two pieces....

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with...

A short film from Peter Elfelt showing Dagmar Hansen.

It seems as if there was no subject so mundane or seedy that it was considered unworthy of filming by Edison and his contemporaries at the turn of...

An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx.

At the royal court, a prince is presenting the princess whom he is pledged to marry when a witch suddenly appears. Though driven off, the witch soon...

A simple scene of two rather flamboyantly-dressed Edwardian children attempting to feed a spoonful of medicine to a sick kitten. The film is...

Pluto, having seen the earth, comes back home amazed at the success of that well-known dance, the "cake-walk." He has brought back with him two noted...

This is the first movie version of the famous story. Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch....

This is a film taken of the execution of Topsy, an elephant employed to help build Luna Park on Coney Island.

Stately scenes in India, likely filmed during the 1903 Delhi Durbar.

A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.

Alone in his room at an inn, a lustful old man is haunted by spirits.

A fine picture of the celebrated "White Wings" or street-cleaning department of one district of Greater New York, showing over 350 men in line, and...