Movies 1898 Page 11

Taken at Washington, in front of the Navy Department, and shows Secretary of the Navy Long and Captain Sigsbee of the ill-fated 'Maine' coming down...

This Victorian duel between knife-wielding women was taken from an existing stage production, thought to be the Drury Lane theatre melodrama 'Women...

"Shows the beach at Long Branch, N.J. immediately after a heavy storm. The breaking waves dash over a row of spiles, throwing a spray high into the...

The title is as detailed as any description can get.

A hand-colored ride along the Bangor-Conwy-Colwyn Bay railroad filmed from an express train from the London and North Western Railway; Stations,...

The steamer 'Mascotte' has reached her dock at Port Tampa, and the 2nd Battalion of Colored Infantry is going ashore.

Leopoldo Fregoli pose as various composers.

With the cameraman atop a moving train car the viewer is given a one minute glimpse of a French urban area.

Rickshaws and pedestrians are moving in the street. Not to be confused with Constant Girel's "Une rue a Tokyo."

Here is a freight train of thirty cars loaded with baggage and ambulance supplies for the 9th U.S. Cavalry.

Reconstruction, with models, of the explosion of the battleship Maine in Havana. Samir Benhalilou contacted Méliès' granddaughter and she confirmed...

The film is part of Eye Filmmuseum’s Mutoscope and Biograph Collection. This collection consists of about 200 films preserved on their original 68...

The Switchback Railway was the forerunner of the roller coaster. Passengers sit in a small car which trundles up a swooping railway track then...

A man of at least five faces.

A lost film. Georges Méliès also directed a film entitled Faust aux enfers in 1903 that is frequently confused with this one, but it has little to...

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...

If you are looking for golf history then Musselbugh Links is the place to start: it's been spoiling good walks since Charles II sat on the throne....

An actuality

A man gets into an argument with his carriage driver.

Anonymously directed is Karina (1902), less than half a minute of a vaudeville can-can dancer. She's shown in voluminous skirt hanging to the floor,...

Two shots. In one, groups of people climb up and then slide down a small hill, including pet dogs. In the other shot, people at a public pool take...

French street scene.

Film produced by William K. Dickson's British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

Four Irishmen dance a jig.

A pretty young girl, chaperoned by her elderly father, is seated on a park bench. The old man is bent over his newspaper. The young girl's lover...

A British Mutoscope & Biograph Company production

Beautiful Spanish Dance by Carolina Otero.

Opening of the Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition was an 1898 New Zealand silent documentary film. The film included scenes of the Newton Band...

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

The interior of a country school is shown. The teacher has stepped out for a moment, and all the youngsters are carrying on. Two wicked little...

A deserter hidden by his mother is found by army police.

In this brief film, Cairo becomes the stage for Lord Kitchener's celebrations after the fall of Khartoum. Possibly filmed by John 'Mad Jack'...

Men walk through the street with their flower-decorated bicycles in this early Pathe actuality.

Some boys are seated at a table outdoors for a meal when a fight breaks out.

All the fun of the fair in this Victorian film, made in the early years of Newcastle's famous Hoppings

Santa delivers toys to some children, not all of which have been nice. A fairy helps with handing out the presents.