This is a news actuality film of the former Commander in Chief of the Boer War, Lord Roberts, visiting Manchester to much hoopla.
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United Kingdom 21 May 1901
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25 July 1901
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01 August 1901
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03 December 1901
In the center of the ring the trainer forms a pile of baskets many feet in height. Greyhounds leap in rapid succession, forming a graceful arch and landing on the ground as lightly as so many feathers.
01 January 1901
Single panning shot of the Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta.
03 February 1901
An impression of the funeral parade for Victoria, Queen of England, filmed in London (via https://catalogue-lumiere.
01 February 1901
A clown performs various feats of magic based on his ability to detach and reattach different parts of his body.
01 August 1901
In the background is a row of three-masted sailing ships, at anchor, their sales furled. In the foreground, a simple pier that's more like a yardarm juts out above the water; about 15 boys of six or seven years of age are on the jutting wood, and they jump off into the water below.
01 August 1901
Mephistopholes causes an artist's model to disappear.
13 December 1901
A man tries to climb ito bed to get a night's sleep. Every time he does, the bed suddenly is someplace else and he falls on the floor.
19 October 1901
This film is difficult to classify. It opens on a scene showing a mourner with bowed head sitting in front of what appears to be a tombstone.
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