Movies 1899

A fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella's rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets...

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.

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…

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....

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

A group of riders demonstrate equestrian vaulting, or voltige, on the outskirts of Prague.

Women getting onto a rickshaw.

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

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

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

Parade of mountaineers and shepherds guiding their flocks in a street.

A lost film. A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it. This film is presumably lost.

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

A group of supervised orphan girls walking through the streets of Amsterdam. Shot on 68mm Mutoscope-Biograph.

This film captures the departure of the 2nd Special Service Battalion, Canadian Infantry, from Quebec for the war in South Africa. Soldiers in...

Parade of shepherds leading their flock in the street.

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

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…

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 film captures the departure of the 2nd Special Service Battalion, Canadian Infantry, from Quebec for the war in South Africa. Soldiers in...

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

A soldier is promoted for bravery, marries a Red Cross girl, and goes home to his parents.

Reenactment of action in the Spanish-American War.

You see a shot of three horse-drawn wagons on a dirt road with some mountains in the far background...

George Dewey was an admiral in the U.S. Navy who is best remembered for his victory at Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War, which he won...

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

"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...

Showing Central Park in the background.

Edison released this as part of their "Northern Pacific Rainway" and "Alaska and Yellowstone National Park" series.

This picture ... centers about some guard ropes moving about, perhaps in the wind, perhaps as the platform the movie is taken from rolls about, while...

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...

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

Shows a group of sailors and an officer at the stern. The flag runs out in a ball to the end of the staff, and, at the signal, is broken. Proudly the...

“Showing a group of soldiers and Red Cross nurses being amused by a number of small children who are riding upon the backs of trick bears. A...

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

Taken from the front platform of a special train run backward over this celebrated S curve. Not only are the passing trains and crowded platforms of...