The best movies 1903

Tramps stick a hot poker in a barrel labelled beer but containing gunpowder.

Three hunters surprise two poachers in the act. The hunters take umbrage and give chase over fences and through fields. The hunters fire away, but...

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...

Likely an unethical appropiation of Georges Méliès's film from 1902. "Although [Gulliver en el país de los gigantes] has been...

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....

Turn of the century rugby league.

An early Pathé version of Don Quixote told in 15 chapters.

The biggest English comedy hit of the year. The scene is laid on an English estate at the edge of a pond. A couple of laborers discover, protruding...

The peculiarity of this waterfall, with its narrow funnel-shaped opening, from which, on to the jagged rocks the torrent dashes, is here portrayed in...

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...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Film depicting the killing of Topsy, an elephant employed to help build Luna Park on Coney Island.

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

Footage of the 1903 football game between the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan, showing uniformed players in action along with...

On September 28th, 1903, the Urban Mountaineering Expedition, headed by Frank Ormiston-Smith, left Zermatt to attempt the conquest of the Matterhorn....

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

One of the first Swedish sound films, the audio has been lost though.

A short film from Peter Elfelt showing Dagmar Hansen.