Movies 1898 Page 3

Carriages carrying Queen Wilhelmina arrive in Amsterdam

St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!

Two fighters, in traditional costume, taking part to the national kendo tournament.

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....

Backstage, between two curtained doors on either side, Fregoli is seated in the center, dressed in a tight-fitting suit and assisted by two helpers....

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...

View from a train in the Montreux region.

An oddly routed parade.

Geisha performance, with umbrella and fans, in Kyoto.

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...

First part of a series documenting the Basel carnival.

Leopoldo Fregoli eating at the restaurant.

Queen Wilhelmina arrives to the palace during her coronation.

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...

A soldier and a serving-girl are courting on a bench. A fat old lady sits on the bench, interrupting them.

He sits asleep at a bare table; old witch enters, raps three times, then disappears; cavalier sees table spread for a sumptuous repast....

Bullfighting short from the Lumieres

From one angle, a line of soldiers are shown walking up the gangplank.

New York City welcome to Sampson's Fleet after the Battle of Santiago Bay, Cuba.

A depiction in the hanging of Edward Heinson, an assumed criminal assault convict in Jacksonville, Florida.

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...

Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen.

The film was photographed as if in the audience at a bull fight. No. 3 shows the collapse of the bull.

Magnificent action is displayed by this troop of Mexican cavalry. They approach at full speed, with drawn sabres, wheel rapidly, and charge in the...

Filmed in 1898 by Edison cameramen, this actuality records Pueblo dancers performing the traditional Eagle Dance. The performers, clad in feathered...

The S.S. Australia departs from San Francisco Bay, carrying American soldiers to the Philippines.

"On the way to San[ta] Monica, Cal., the train approaches, runs through and emerges from a tunnel. Train passes in opposite direction. Camera is at...

"Here is a film, one of the finest of its kind, portraying a number of colored professionals in their favorite pastime, a cake walk. This is a winner...

The large war vessel slides slowly down the ways, stern first. Rowboats in the foreground rock violently in the swell. One boat upsets.

The boulevard in front of the Kurhaus, with pedestrians and a terrace.

"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...

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

"Taken at San Francisco, Cal., at the Golden Jubilee. This picture shows a procession of the resident Chinese of San Francisco, carrying banners,...

A sweet little girl is seated in the bow of a life-boat feeding crackers to a magnificent St. Bernard dog, while a tabby cat dozes and blinks at her...