Movies 1898 Page 6

Santa arrives at a house on Christmas Eve to deliver his presents for the children.

Four men of different ranks play a game of tetherball on a ship's deck.

Showing Pygmalion at work in his studio on the statue of Galatea, who, on being completed, comes to life. He attempts to clasp her to his arms, when...

From Wikipedia: Sua Santità papa Leone XIII (Italian for "His Holiness Pope Leo XIII") is an 1898 short film directed by William Kennedy Dickson...

Probably the first video of a Pope: Leo XIII sits in his chair with guards and attendants, then blesses the viewers.

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...

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 first scene in the 1898 Passion Play

Reporters rush to telegraph the latest war news.

Come Along, Do! is an 1898 British short silent comedy film, produced and directed by Robert W. Paul. The film was of 1 minute duration, but only...

Film shot by W.K.L. Dickson at Maidenhead Junction, 1898.

This short film from the Edison Manufacturing Company shows, as the title pretty much sums up, some trained cavalry horses.

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...

"Many spectators who have viewed this picture on the Biograph have insisted that they have experienced the pangs of seasickness. The picture was...

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

Soldiers setting up camp.

Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen.

"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...

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

This film was shot near the Union Works, San Francisco, California. Great look at the pleasure yacht "Unadilla" with her decks loaded with passengers.

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

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...

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

Dotting the horizon on the right of the picture is the great fleet of transports, while scattered all along the beach and piled high to the left are...

A group of escaped reconcentrados, saved from the fate of starvation imposed by the Butcher, Weyler.

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

The title is as detailed as any description can get.

Brooklyn Jubilee Peace Parade

Several men in a basement barbershop become excited by women walking past the window. The ankles and knees of the passersby are visible to the men...

The SS 'St. Louis' departs from Southampton Docks

Shows the despatch boat of the 'New York Journal' steaming through the water, having aboard the war correspondents.

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

When Battery B of the 4th U.S. Artillery came to Tampa, Fla., it meant business, and the picture shows it. One by one the big artillery-men pass by...