Most Viewed Year 1901 - 8

"This film shows the citation, presentation, and dedication of a bridge by the Duke of York, later King of England and grandfather of Queen...

Footage from the dawn of film taken by Mitchell and Kenyon in North England, 1901.

Stage star Anna Held (1872-1918) riffs on her once-famous scene from the comedy Papa's Wife (1899-1901) featuring a naif getting tipsy on her first...

Leicester Tigers face Plymouth in this early filmed rugby match, which took place 26 October 1901, at Leicester's Welford Road home. As is customary...

First Hungarian film ever made. Considered lost.

Documentary filmed by Fructuoso Gelabert at the Spanish coast.

This is a news actuality film of the former Commander in Chief of the Boer War, Lord Roberts, visiting Manchester to much hoopla.

An impression of the funeral parade for Victoria, Queen of England, filmed in London (via https://catalogue-lumiere.com/le-char-funebre/)

The President is seen on the reviewing stand at the Stadium, escorted by President Milburn, of the Pan-American Exposition...

Here we show Captain N. P. Nissen, formerly known as Captain Bowser, making a trip through the Whirlpool Rapids in his famous twenty-four foot craft...

Footage of Edward VII in the funeral procession of his mother, Queen Victoria.

Liverpool was a flourishing, prosperous city in 1901 and this display of English patriotism and civic pride was one of several events in the city...

A temperance society decries the demon drink on the streets of Edwardian Manchester.