31 October 1903 Factual 1 mins
Solo from 'La sylphide' (1836), ballet by August Bournonville. Performed by Ellen Price (1878-1968), soloist from 1903. Ellen Price's dancing in Hans Beck's ballet 'The Little Mermaid' (1909) was the inspiration for Edvard Eriksen's statue of the same name (1911). (Stumfilm.DK)
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Denmark 31 October 1903
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1903:
01 January 1903
Bioscoped from a motor. The center of fashion and society in the Bernese Oberland. The rendezvous of the most cosmopolitan crowd in Europe.
01 January 1903
A crowd of a hundred boys rushing the position of another crowd, storming their adversaries with volleys of snowballs, finally driving the enemy from the crest of the hill, a position of vantage they held in the beginning of the fray.
01 October 1903
A pretty domestic scene showing the proud father, with the assistance of the nurse and doctor, tying the little one in a towel and weighing it with a spring scale.
14 February 1903
A newly married couple who are on their honeymoon have something else to do than to admire nature. A tunnel comes and their conversation gets very animated, but suddenly they are interrupted by a guard who asks them for their tickets.
01 January 1903
1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith
01 January 1903
1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith
02 July 1903
Kathryn Osterman breaks egg into a plate. As the content reaches the plate, it transforms into a baby chick.
07 December 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 of the fleeing bandits.
29 June 1903
This is in every respect a stunning picture, though somewhat bohemian in subject. It depicts in six scenes, six lively hours at New York City's famous Tenderloin dance hall, "The Haymarket.
06 October 1903
Happy Hooligan is thrust into prison, but makes the most of his hardship. He is seen in his cell enjoying a full meal of prison hash.
21 February 1903
Pluto, having seen the earth, comes back home amazed at the success of that well-known dance, the "cake-walk.
01 May 1903
To fill their jars with water, a group of women gathered around the well. At one point comes Samaria, a woman known for her bad temper.
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1903 Peter Elfelt.