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1903 Movies

Public list by WPS with 52 movies or TV shows/series

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The Great Train Robbery(1903)

12min | Crime, Action, Western
3.5/5 (with 257 votes)

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.

Alice in Wonderland(1903)

3.1/5 (with 45 votes)

This is the first movie version of the famous story. Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch. She follows him down a hole and finds herself in a hall of many doors.

Life of an American Fireman(1903)

6min | Action
3.1/5 (with 49 votes)

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with their horse drawn pumper, arrive on the scene, and effect the safe rescue of a woman from the burning house. But wait, she tells them of her child yet asleep in the burning bedroom...

Directed by Edwin Stanton Porter, George S. Fleming - With James White

The Kingdom of the Fairies(1903)

3.4/5 (with 32 votes)

At the royal court, a prince is presenting the princess whom he is pledged to marry when a witch suddenly appears. Though driven off, the witch soon returns, summons some of her servants, and carries off the princess. A rescue party is quickly organized, but the unfortunate captive has been taken to a strange, forbidding realm, from where it will be impossible to rescue her without some special help.

The Infernal Cauldron(1903)

2min | Fantasy, Horror
3.1/5 (with 34 votes)

A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.

Electrocuting an Elephant(1903)

1.4/5 (with 32 votes)

This is a film taken of the execution of Topsy, an elephant employed to help build Luna Park on Coney Island.

Directed by Thomas Edison

The Melomaniac(1903)

3min | Comedy, Music
3.3/5 (with 36 votes)

The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.

The Sick Kitten(1903)

1min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 25 votes)

A simple scene of two rather flamboyantly-dressed Edwardian children attempting to feed a spoonful of medicine to a sick kitten. The film is important for being one of the earliest films to cut to a close-up, then back again to the same medium shot as before.

The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ(1903)

44min | Drama, History
3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

The story of Jesus Christ, from the proclamation of his Nativity to his Ascension into heaven. Impressive staging and beautiful hand-coloring distinguish the film from its Passion-play counterparts; Its scale and dynamic crowds prelude the Italian epics to come.

Directed by Ferdinand Zecca, Lucien Nonguet - With Madame Moreau, Monsieur Moreau

The Gay Shoe Clerk(1903)

2.7/5 (with 19 votes)

A woman being fitted for shoes exposes her ankle to the shoe clerk, who is intrigued. He kisses her, but her chaperone hits him with her umbrella.

The Magic Lantern(1903)

5min | Fantasy
2.9/5 (with 17 votes)

Two impish clowns construct a magic lantern. They prop it up at an angle, and use it to project pictures onto a wall. When the picture show ends, they open up the lantern to reveal a group of dancing girls inside - and this is only the first of the indications that this lantern really is magical.

Directed by Georges Méliès

Uncle Tom's Cabin(1903)

19min
2.4/5 (with 14 votes)

Based on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe: Eliza, a slave who has a young child, pleads with Tom, another slave, to escape with her. Tom does not leave, but Eliza flees with her child. After getting some help to escape the slave traders who are looking for her, she then must try to cross the icy Ohio River if she wants to be free. Meanwhile, Tom is sold from one master to another, and his fortunes vary widely.

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The Infernal Cakewalk(1903)

5min | Fantasy, Comedy
2.8/5 (with 19 votes)

Pluto, having seen the earth, comes back home amazed at the success of that well-known dance, the "cake-walk." He has brought back with him two noted well-known dancers, who start their favorite dance amidst the flames.

A Chess Dispute(1903)

1min
2.9/5 (with 15 votes)

A stationary camera looks on as two dapper gents play a game of chess. One drinks and smokes, and when he looks away, his opponent moves two pieces. A fight ensues, first with the squirting of a seltzer bottle, then with fisticuffs. The combatants wrestle each other to the floor and continue the fight out of the camera's view, hidden by the table. The waiter arrives to haul both of them out.

Directed by Robert W. Paul

The Monster(1903)

2min | Fantasy, Horror
3.0/5 (with 21 votes)

An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx.

The Mystical Flame(1903)

2min | Comedy, Fantasy
2.4/5 (with 5 votes)

A juggler enters upon the scene, picks up a skull, throws it into the air, catches it in his hands, where it is transformed into a handkerchief. The handkerchief, after being twirled about a wand, is changed to a napkin, and afterward to a tablecloth. Out of the table cloth comes a servant.

Don Quichotte(1903)

6min | Comedy, History
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

An early Pathé version of Don Quixote told in 15 chapters.

Move On(1903)

2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

In certain sections of New York City large numbers of Jewish and Italian push-cart vendors congregate so closely along the sidewalks that they interfere with traffic. Policemen keep them moving. The picture shows how the frightened peddlers hurry away when a bluecoat appears. Some of the carts are piled high with fruits of all kinds, and it is interesting and amusing to see the expressions of combined fear and anxiety on the faces of the men as they hurry away; the fear of being arrested if they stand, and of losing some of their wares if the carts strike an obstruction in the street. Very fine photographically. (Edison film company catalog)

Directed by Alfred C. Abadie

Mary Jane's Mishap(1903)

4min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 19 votes)

Mary Jane tries to light the oven. When she's unsuccessful, she plays around, getting black boot polish on her face. She mugs before a mirror. Then, it's back to work. When the stove still won't light, she pours in paraffin, winks at the camera, and lights a match. Kaboom! Is there any rest for the foolish, even in the grave?

The Marvellous Wreath(1903)

3min | Fantasy
2.4/5 (with 6 votes)

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

The Enchanted Well(1903)

3min
2.7/5 (with 13 votes)

A witch curses a town's well.

Directed by Georges Méliès

Apparitions(1903)

2min | Comedy, Fantasy
2.7/5 (with 13 votes)

Alone in his room at an inn, a lustful old man is haunted by spirits.

The Inn Where No Man Rests(1903)

5min | Fantasy, Comedy
2.9/5 (with 10 votes)

A traveller is shown to a room in an inn. After a brief dispute with the hostess and a porter, he is left to himself. But strange things begin to happen in his room, and before long he has created a disturbance that has everyone running to his room to find out what is going on.

Directed by Georges Méliès

The Runaway Match, or Marriage by Motor(1903)

2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A couple elopes; Her father pursues via motorcar.

Directed by Alf Collins

Jack Jags and Dum Dum(1903)

2min
2.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Two comic characters, Jack Jags and Dum Dum, perform slapstick comedy on stage.

A Daring Daylight Burglary(1903)

4min | Crime
2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

A thief jumps a fence and removes the shutter from a house. He enters, but a lad who's witnessed the crime runs off to hail the coppers. The first officer on the scene climbs the fence, enters the house, and is soon fighting with the thief on the roof. Falling from the roof, the officer is injured and requires an ambulance. Meanwhile, the thief flees, pursued by more men in blue.

Directed by Frank Mottershaw

Extraordinary Illusions(1903)

2min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 14 votes)

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.

Directed by Georges Méliès

The Oracle of Delphi(1903)

2min | Crime, Fantasy
2.7/5 (with 8 votes)

A box of valued jewels is placed inside the tomb of Delphi. A thief breaks into the tomb and steals it, but soon the ghost of Delphi appears and puts a curse on him.

Directed by Georges Méliès

Ten Ladies in an Umbrella(1903)

3min
3.0/5 (with 13 votes)

The scene is similar to that seen at Coney Island, where a number of shows are constantly going on.

The Terrible Turkish Executioner(1904)

2min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 10 votes)

In a public place in Constantinople at the corner of a bazaar, the executioner is seated upon a stone and is resting from his daily labors while eating a crust of bread. Suddenly there come running into the place a lot of Turkish men and women preceding some Turkish policemen, who drag along four prisoners in chains. The policemen shut up the four prisoners in the pillory. Their four heads stick up through the huge plank, which is provided with four openings. One of the policemen urges the executioner to decapitate the prisoners. He accordingly seizes a mighty sabre and cuts off by a single stroke the four heads, which roll upon the ground.

Directed by Georges Méliès
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