Movies 1898 Page 5

Windmills along the River Zaan.

A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.

A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.

First pageant celebrating the opening of the Swiss National Museum.

"A double-decked trolley car, crowded with passengers, approaches and passes the camera. Carriages, pedestrians and bicyclists add to the action of...

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

“A file of Spanish soldiers line up the Cubans against a blank wall and fire a volley. The flash of rifles and drifting smoke make a very striking...

Patriotic celebration in Lausanne marking the centenary of the independence of the Canton of Vaud.

Fifth part of a series documenting the Basel carnival.

Scene filmed in the town of St. Gallen.

A blind man begging for change tries to outsmart a cop. There is no known director for this film, although it is included in the filmography of Alice...

An impressive eight-some performs some Victorian gymnastics for the camera

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

The ghost of a man's twin shows him a vision of how he was killed in a duel.

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...

The Statue of Liberty in right profile; No people, no flags rippling in the wind, no seagulls flapping past to mar the unmoving image of the Statue...

Four Irishmen dance a jig.

A clown cuts off a customer's head and replaces it.

Foaming sea breaks over rocks and a sea wall in what is believed to be Ilfracombe, on the North Devon coast. The study of waves breaking was a...

A farmer kisses a lean girl.

Taken in Havana Harbor from a moving launch, and shows the wreck of the 'Maine' surrounded by wrecking boats and other vessels...

"Imagine forty or fifty soldier boys each with a pail of water on the ground before him, sousing and spattering and scrubbing away for dear life..."

The Reading's [Pennsylvania] pitcher has just let a Newark [New Jersey] batsman walk to first. Our camera is stationed about twenty feet from the...

The SS 'St. Louis' departs from Southampton Docks

Two washerwomen have an altercation with a chimney sweep

Views of Buffalo Bills Wild West Show.

The festive start and disastrous aftermath of the launch of the H.M.S. Albion.

This picture shows Col. Roosevelt, accompanied by Lieut. Greenway and other prominent officers of the Rough Riders, galloping up to his headquarters,...

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

A “phantom ride” taken from the buffers of an engine on the London and South West Railway through the Ilfracombe area: the reservoirs, Morthroe,...

A most excellent picture of the grim old fortress which stands at the entrance of Havana Harbor...

A method soldier boys have for amusing themselves in their leisure moments. New comrades are frequently initiated by the old-fashioned sport of...

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

Parade footage.