"Lost film" 30 July 1901 Fantasy 3 mins
A peasant refuses to help a poor old woman to carry a bundle of wood. The old woman transforms to a beautiful fairy seated in a magnificent chariot and punishes the man with visions of phantoms in a cemetery in order to teach him a lesson.
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France 30 July 1901
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01 February 1901
A clown performs various feats of magic based on his ability to detach and reattach different parts of his body.
24 November 1901
This is an extraordinary window on to the heart of cosmopolitan Shanghai, over a hundred years ago, featuring a Nanjing Road bustling with crowds of Chinese, Sikhs and Europeans.
01 August 1901
Mephistopholes causes an artist's model to disappear.
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.
14 December 1901
James J. Jeffries throwing the medicine ball. An absolutely perfect picture of the champion heavyweight of the world.
01 January 1901
Single panning shot of the Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta.
01 August 1901
An inventive use of slow-motion filming helps hammer home the gag as an unconvincing 'Indian chief' hopes to dissolve some trapped wind with a popular brand of indigestion powder.
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Footage from the dawn of film taken by Mitchell and Kenyon in North England, 1901.
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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.
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1901 Pathé Frères.
