50 Amazing Photos Capture Street Scenes of Copenhagen in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

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Born 1866 in Elsinore, Danish photographer and film director Peter Elfelt was a known as the first movie pioneer in Denmark when he began making documentary films in 1897.

Copenhagen taken by Peter Elfelt from between the 1890s and early 1910s

In 1903, Elfelt filmed his only drama. The short film, titled Henrettelsen (Capital Execution), was the first fiction film made in Denmark. Based upon the actual execution of a French woman who murdered her two children.

Elfelt also shot the first advertising film. There is a 1904 example which advertises bock beer for the Svendborg Brewery. He opened the “København Kinoptikon” movie theater in 1901.

Although Elfelt was Denmark’s first pioneer of filmmaking, he considered film as secondary to his work as a photographer. Elfelt died in 1931.

These amazing photos were taken by Peter Elfelt that show street scenes of Copenhagen from between the 1890s and early 1910s.