Movies 1898 Page 5

This film shows the summit portion of the Mill Valley and Mount Tamalpais Scenic Railway, the Tamalpais Tavern resort, and part of the adjacent east...

Taken on the line of the Mt. Tamalpais scenic railroad, Marin county, California, from a flat car following the engine.

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

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

Shows the entire flock running around the corral with great strides and outstretched wings.

The film shows visitors to the Žofín lido in Prague as they comically mill about.

On Saturday morning, August 20, 1898, six grim battleships of Admiral Sampson's Squadron sailed into New York Harbor and up the Hudson to receive a...

The end of the Longchamp parade and departure of the President, filmed by the Lumière brothers.

American Indians dancing.

Skating scene.

San Diego Beach, Hotel del Coronado. A pug dog, several terriers and water spaniels and a great St. Bernard are dashing into the water, retrieving...

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

Geisha performance, with umbrella and fans, in Kyoto.

Eight mounted cowboys pursue an escaped steer, riding at furious speed. Fine exhibition of lasso throwing. Mexican International.

A hypnotist tricks his patients. There is no credited director for this film, although three different persons get attributed, Gaston Breteau, Alice...

"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 pope resting.

"Here was built the peerless battleship 'Oregon.' The scene is taken at lunch hour, and shows a great throng of employees leaving the shop."

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

"The commander of the 5th Army Corps rides forward with a party of officers. He wears a white helmet, a broad expanse of shirt bosom and a general...

Taken at the Cuban Volunteer Camp at West Tampa, Fla. Men are falling into line, two abreast, every man with his tin cup and dish. Command is given...

A bunch of naked boys jump and splash in the water right on one of the canals of Venice. There's even the tail end of one of the gondolas to make...

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

This boat was the first one to leave for the South with troops. On board is a battalion of the 5th U.S. Infantry.

Man dresses up as a woman, and the film is reversed.

A folk dance staged in the ruins of Pompeii. With the Arch of Tiberius in the near distance and Arch of Caligula in far distance. A troop of...

Pelicans being released for feeding into their enclosure at London Zoological Gardens.

The Humpty Dumpty Circus is the first animated short film created in stop-motion technique. It features a circus with acrobats and animals in motion.

Black hooded pallbearers carry a coffin in a funeral procession in front of onlookers.

The SS 'St. Louis' departs from Southampton Docks

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

Short comedy

A parade in the Vatican.

Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen.

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

Brooklyn Jubilee Peace Parade

Leopoldo Fregoli dressing from man to woman and back again.

Two washerwomen have an altercation with a chimney sweep

Noted for the first use of time-lapse in a motion picture.