The best movies 1903

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...

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

The Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show introduces rough riders from all the world.

A short film from Peter Elfelt showing Dagmar Hansen.

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....

A gentleman is here shown partaking of a little lunch of bread and cheese, and occasionally is seen to glance at his morning paper through a reading...

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

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...

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...

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

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

Pierrot goes to the house of his love to serenade her, but her father kicks him out. Soon the moon and its goddess Diana come towards the man and...

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

Two sports are seen drinking beer and arguing as to the qualities of certain prize fighters. They make a bet, and to prove it, each pulls his...

Alphonse and Gaston are in an American barber shop. They interrupt business with their exaggerated politeness, and the waiting customers throw them...

A merchant is giving a demonstration of his lifelike automatons to a bedazzled customer. Could these "larger than life" clockwork figures look too...

A woman riding a train must contend with the unwelcome advances of a male passenger.

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

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

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

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

Staging of a song by Miguel F. López.