Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor.
Sailors training with swords.
Annual pageant commemorating the anniversary of the Battle of Morat, the victory in 1476 of the Swiss Confederates over the Duke of Burgundy. The...
Pedestrian and rickshaws traffic on Shijo Kobashi bridge, in Kyoto.
A man plays the trombone, to which is attached a saw.
Workmen fix a walkway with bitumen.
The Last Supper, part 6 of Alexandre Promio's Passion Play.
A man changes clothes immediately.
A hypnotism scene from the Lumière Brothers.
Branding calves in 1898.
One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and...
From the upper windows of a ruined mill Cubans are firing at a scouting party of Spaniards, who return the volley. Fine smoke effects.
An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air. There is no credited director for this film, although three different persons get attributed,...
Leopoldo Fregoli gets free tasty samples.
Papa is reading his newspaper and his little girl tickles his neck with a long straw. Thinking it is a fly papa "shoos" away the supposed fly with...
A young, dark-haired woman performs a dance inspired by George du Maurier's character Trilby, in an early modern dance style reminiscent of Isadora...
Two men with three lordships between them.
The film opens showing the native daughters mounted on horses.
Skating scene.
Film shot by W.K.L. Dickson at Maidenhead Junction, 1898.
Filmmaker WKL Dickson, one-time right hand man to Thomas Edison, the 'Wizard of Menlo Park', here captures an even greater eminence, Pope Leo XIII....
Four men of different ranks play a game of tetherball on a ship's deck.
Another entry in Edison's "Southern Pacific Company Series", which pretty much had cameramen hanging around the train line just shooting anything...
A short documentary capturing the officers and crew of the USS Brooklyn during a naval parade in Brooklyn, New York, on October 1, 1898, following...
This picture has been very popular wherever it has been shown on the Biograph. To begin with, the film is unusually fine photographically, and the...
Directed by James H. White.
Members of the photographic convention carrying tripods and cameras file past a waiting room on the deck of the Clyde steamer “Lady Rowena”....
Taken on 'Lucky' Baldwin's ranch, Santa Anita, Cal. Shows an engine and five cars approaching from a distance.
The Passion Play of Oberammergau (1898) presents scenes from the famed Bavarian passion play, dramatizing the final days of Jesus Christ—from his...
Leopoldo Fregoli dressing from man to woman and back again.
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