1903 Movies

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...

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. She...

A woman being fitted for shoes exposes her ankle to the shoe clerk, who is intrigued. He kisses her, but her chaperone hits him with her umbrella.

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

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

Mary Jane tries to light the oven. When she's unsuccessful, she plays around, getting black boot polish on her face. She mugs before a mirror. Then, i...

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

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.

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

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 r...

A traveller is shown to a room in an inn. After a brief dispute with the hostess and a porter, he is left to himself. But strange things begin to happ...

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...

The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.

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

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

Georgetown, 1901. A silver-mining town at 8,500 feet near the crest of the Rockies. Hooked somehow to the rear of a four-car passenger train is a came...

A witch curses a town's well.

A re-telling of the classic tale of Faust in all of two minutes by French filmmaker Alice Guy.

Film taken from a boat heading down the Hudson is shown at varying speeds, often giving a sense of rapid transit.

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