Movies 1898 Page 7

One of the two earliest horror films ever made. This film is presumed lost.

The pope taking a twilight walk.

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

"This picture was taken from the front of a rapidly moving launch through one of the most beautiful stretches of the Grand Canal, showing many...

Second pageant for the opening of the Swiss National Museum.

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....

Félicien Trewey mimes Pierrot being harassed in his sleep by a fly.

Bullfighting short from the Lumieres

During Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

Agents chase down rooftop criminals, and after a series of grotesque twists and turns, they finally get their hands on them.

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

A showcase of trapeze artist Alciede Capitaine, billed as “The Perfect Woman,” whose daring feats on the flying bar combined grace with...

Arguably the first animation film in Spain, where two ships collide.

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.

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

Backward tracking shot of a train going from Bushey, England, near the end of its journey to Euston.

American troops prepare for the invasion of Cuba.

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...

Old pig and ten little ones.

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

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...

The entry of the Torino Exposition is an 1898 film dedicated to the inauguration in Torino from the King of Italy Umberto I of Italy of the Italian...

generally credited as the first known film by a Canadian filmmaker

George Smith's picture of the crowds out for a stroll on what I imagine is Brighton Pier.

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

Members of the PHOTOGRAPHIC CONVENTION carrying tripods and cameras file past a waiting room on the deck of the Clyde steamer "Lady Rowena".

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 great pack train approaches rapidly, following the gray bell-mule. Cowboys dash to and fro, keeping them bunched. Clouds of dust arise as they...

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

Hurrah here they come! Hot, dusty, grim and determined! Real soldiers, every inch of them! No gold lace and chalked belts and shoulder straps...

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...

Children Playing on the Beach at Rhyl

The famous show makes a parade.

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