Movies 1899

View of the audience, following the launch of a ship.

Women getting onto a rickshaw.

Within a printing (printing a test).

Showing the interior view of the hut in which Dreyfus is confined. The scene takes place at night, showing the moon through the window of the cell....

In September of 1899, the French cameraman Emile Lauste visited the Netherlands for the second time that year. [...] One of the subjects that Lauste...

Carriages travel down the Champs Elysée.

Vietnamese children collect coins that are thrown them by two aristocratic ladies.

Sovereigns and their suite passing in front of the monument to Victor Emmanuel II in Sassari.

Asian remake of Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory, apparently.

Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe. There is no known credited director for this film, although the attribution usually goes for Alice Guy.

View of the German and Italian royal processions, at the iron mines of Monteponi.

Traffic and crowd in front of the stalls of a street market.

A man demonstrates a human-powered water wheel that irrigates a rice field.

A clergyman is startled by a group of automatons.

Also known as The Operation of Dr. Alejandro Posadas. Filmed with early orthochromatic film in the Hospital de Clínicas de la Ciudad in Buenos Aires.

Panorama of the battleships "Sardegna" and "Sicilia" at the naval review of Cagliari.

Leopoldo Fregoli as a magician.

A moustachioed Frenchman presents his performing cats.

Panorama of the battleship "Brennus" flagship of the French fleet

Within a printing (printing a test).

A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

Actuality film of miners entering a mine.

The Buffoons are artists in their line. They tumble in and out of trick doors, disappear and reappear in unexpected places in most unexpected ways....

This view represents the passage of a decorated chariot; The many spectators fight with confetti.

Based on Shakespeare's play, Act V, Scene vii: King John is in torment, and his supporters fear that his end is near. As he writhes in agony, he is...

A phantom ride.

"The umpire makes a decision that Casey doesn't like, and an argument follows, during which Casey deftly trips him up, and continues the argument on...

This Edison short features famed cyclist Neidert performing a series of impressive bicycle stunts on stage, including riding backwards, balancing on...

The clown and his automobile enters with great puffs of smoke

A man makes twenty complete changes in two minutes, combining with them dances. The changes are made in full sight of the audience. Biondi, Fregoli...

Reenactment of action in the Spanish-American War.

An excellent view of 'The Finest,' on their annual parade and inspection, June 1, 1899. The head of the column is just turning into 14th street from...

Leopoldo Fregoli as a flirting soldier.

30 seconds of actual snowball fighting from 1899. A quick glimpse of a time gone by

Up the road comes a detachment of infantry, firing, advancing, kneeling and firing, again and again...

"A panoramic view of the 'Raleigh,' as she lies at anchor off 27th Street, North River, April 17, 1899. Captain Coghlan stands among a group of...

Recreation of military maneuvers in the Philippines in the Spanish-American War.

A miser dies of shock when the ghost of a poor woman appears.

The Filipinos execute a flank movement and re-occupy the trenches, cutting off the advance guard of Americans. The rebel flag waves over the ditch...