Movies 1898 Page 9

Bullfighting short from the Lumieres

Man in roman costume carves figure of girl in doorway. As he finishes, the statue comes to life. The man expresses great love and desire for her, but...

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

The first scene in the 1898 Passion Play

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

"The fashionable set is parading in the park, after church. The concourse is composed of all nationalities, including several groups of pretty...

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

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...

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

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

This twenty-five second film is from Edison's "Southern Pacific Company" series. What we see is a Japanese ship as it is floating into a harbor in...

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

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

Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by...

An adaptation of the folk tale.

Many gondolas in Venice harbour with a fishing boat in the background

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...

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

"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 camera sails off, giving us a view of the port from the water.

A fine picture of the launching of this splendid battleship; taken from the water. The vessel is shown sliding down the ways, plunging into the sea;...

"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...

"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...

The camera is on a boat traveling from Pier 14 toward Battery Park. The North River (now the Hudson), busy with tugs, is in the foreground. The...

This picture was taken after the battle of Las Guaymas, and shows a large number of wounded soldiers embarking in a rowboat from an extemporized...

Photographer tries to take a picture of a ghost, but it won't keep still and then vanishes.

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

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...

We see a dozen or so Cubans walking a plank onto a ship.

On Saturday morning, August 20, 1898, six grim battleships of Admiral Sampson's Squadron...

Of the thousand and more men who left New York for the Cuban Campaign, scarcely three hundred were able to shoulder their rifles to march before the...

"Shows 34th Michigan boys hard at work with pick and shovel, preparing the way for passage of seige guns."

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

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

Footage by Gaumont of the famous road in France. (Title given — incorrect in French — is the one used on the BFI Mediatheque, where it is...

Soldiers setting up camp.

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