1902 Movies

The "Foxy Grandpa" is a series of eight short staged films illustrating scenes and incidents from William A. Brady's musical production ‘Foxy Grandpa’...

A fine picture taken at the race track in Kiel, Germany, showing an exciting horse race. Two of the contestants finish almost neck and neck.

Barrels of laughs and sackfuls of fun at a school sports event in Edwardian West Yorkshire.

The Coronation Day parade in London, on 9 August 1902. The first of two shots taken from the same camera position for the British Mutoscope and Biogra...

Shows how the ice is picked up from the canal and loaded on cars which are hauled across the mountain by cable. After letting the cars down on the opp...

A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.

Short documentary subject produced by Mitchell & Kenyon detailing contemporary streetlife. A print survives at the BFI.

Rugby league footage from Mitchell & Kenyon.

A breathtaking winter journey in the Pennines, from country to town and back again via electric tram.

This is a short, simple ballet performance. Colors are used here, but the print is quite badly damaged.

The bicycle was still a novelty at the beginning of the 20th century. At the Villa Belle Rive in Cannes, the Lavanchy-Clarke family engage with it cyc...

The Flying Train depicts a ride on a suspended railway. The footage is almost as impressive as the feat of engineering it captures. For many years our...

It's not easy to view these beguiling scenic shots without burdening them with our knowledge of history. The pivotal site of Irish emigration, Queenst...

This picture shows a merry laughing mass of humanity enjoying the sights of the amusement section of the Exposition on President's Day, which so happi...

As well as its extensive railway network, Cork was served by an impressive tramway system, which was just four years old when this film was made. As t...

A small boy bathing a big Newfoundland dog in the basin of a fountain. The boy enjoys the operation, but the dog has his doubts about it.

These famous European acrobats are shown in their wonderful feats of balancing and high-class acrobatic work. This troupe commands the highest salary...

A beautiful shot of a locomotive billowing smoke begins this very evocative film. As the train pulls in to the terminus the camera is positioned behin...

These short scenes were filmed in January 1902 in and around Wexford's Bull Ring market, capturing an array of local characters, including a cheery fi...

Little Miss Lillian is Lillian Graham, billed as the youngest prima ballerina in the world. She appears in four different costumes, doing four dances,...