21 November 1900 Comedy 2 mins
Although we are led to believe that the ancient alchemists were all powerful, this picture somewhat reverses the order of things...
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United States 21 November 1900
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1900:
10 September 1900
A cleverly conceived picture of a little boy and girl with building blocks. The little girl has erected a pretty structure, which the boy proceeds to demolish with pokes of his fingers.
01 January 1900
A shot of a busy street in Paris is shown in reverse.
08 August 1900
Consisting of a single shot, Spiders on a Web is one of the earliest British examples of close-up natural history photography.
01 August 1900
Possibly the first film to utilize the technique of focus pulling. A man kisses a beautiful and lively woman, then the image blurs and dissolves into a clear image of the man waking up to his nagging wife.
09 March 1900
"Nothing new, but an old thing done over again and done well. Some one has attempted to describe a kiss as "something made of nothing," but this is not one of that kind, but one of those old fashioned "home made" kind that sets the whole audience into merriment and motion, and has always proven a popular subject.
01 January 1900
A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.
01 January 1900
The picture opens with the Sultan lying down to rest on his luxurious cushioned couch. The scene changes to the grounds around the palace.
01 September 1900
Trick film. A stage magician transforms a woman into a butterfly and himself into a giant bat. This film is considered lost.
01 January 1900
Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
21 May 1900
The movie consists solely of a saber fight. Bernhardt plays a cross-gender Hamlet, and Pierre Magnier is her fellow duelist, Laertes.
21 September 1900
This picture shows the remains of one of the docks, several freight cars being piled one upon the other, while the most interesting part of the picture shows two schooners literally smashed one into the other, forming a most picturesque mass of wreckage.
01 November 1900
TRICK. Two bathers arrive at a river, disrobe at the water's edge and dive in. The action is then reversed and the men are seen leaving the water feet first and their clothes fly back on their bodies.
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