Exciting scenes of amateur cycling's 'Race of Champions' at Manchester's Fallowfield track.
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United Kingdom 09 August 1901
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1901:
25 April 1901
This clip shows part of the official parade for the Inauguration of the Commonwealth on 1 January 1901 as it passes through the temporary gate built especially for the occasion in Hyde Park, Sydney.
16 November 1901
This early docudrama shows Auburn Prison and recreates the electrocution of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley of the United States.
01 January 1901
Single panning shot of the Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta.
29 April 1901
Time-lapse photography showing the one month-long demolition of the Star Theatre in New York.
16 December 1901
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 around in the waves in very evident delight and enjoyment.
11 August 1901
The famous acrobats in the above title appear in a marvellous acrobatic act. There are three barrels arranged on the stage.
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.
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.
01 January 1901
Documentary filmed by Fructuoso Gelabert at the Spanish coast.
23 March 1901
It shows a garden wall in the background. Two lovers appear and lean over the garden gate where the moon throws a shadow upon the ground.
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