Most Viewed Year 1901 - 4

A daredevil rides his bicycle down a ramp and attempts to land in a pool of water as a crowd of spectators watches.

On 28 January 1901 the great musician Giuseppe Verdi died from the consequences of a stroke that had struck him six days earlier. These very rare...

In 1953, in an old cabinet of a former photographer from Zermatt, a first mountaineering film was found. It was a silent film from the first era...

Certainly one of the greatest literary successes of our time. This work has been translated into every [sic] language and its sale has reached...

A short documentary registering the meeting between two aviation pioneers: the Brazilian Santos Dumont and the Briton Charles Rolls. In it, Dumont...

This wonderful dog "Mannie," owned by the vaudeville star, Miss Laura Comstock, is a most learned animal. He has been trained to perform all sorts of...

An Edwardian football match at Newcastle's St James' Park ground.

Close view of legs and feet passing a basement window.

As a man removes his clothes to bathe, more reappear on him.

Here we see one of the methods employed in the search for gold, where water is scarce. We see the workmen using the water over and over again in the...

The annual championship meeting of England's premier athletics association.

A jovial looking man is seated nearest the window of a restaurant. He has just finished his meal and the waiter brings a glass of beer, and when he...

In a wizard's cavern, a series of magic tricks are performed..

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

As the above title indicates, the scene does not take place in an ordinary restaurant, but one in which all natural rules of order and gravitation...

A pretty and natural picture in which the principal actors are two tiny tots who are evidently not a bit afraid of the briny deep as they splash...

Single panning shot of the Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta.

Did he bowl or did he throw? A fascinating record of an early cricketing controversy.

A sudden gust of wind sweeps Auntie's bonnet from her head, and she, in attempting to regain it, becomes overbalanced and falls over the stone-wall,...