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...

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

Carriages travel down the Champs Elysée.

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.

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.

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.

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

A clergyman is startled by a group of automatons.

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

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.

A moustachioed Frenchman presents his performing cats.

Actuality film of miners entering a mine.

Within a printing (printing a test).

Actuality film of miners entering a mine.

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

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…

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...

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....

The clown and his automobile enters with great puffs of smoke

A phantom ride.

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

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...

The milk of human unkindness flows in this 1899 revenge comedy from the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, in which a put-upon dairymaid throws...

Leopoldo Fregoli as a flirting soldier.

The scene opens with a salesman displaying corsets to the buyer of a country store. He calls in a female model and tries a corset on her. While the...

Filmed on January 1, 1899, this Edison short shows a victory march by General Lee and the Seventh Army Corps. When watching these early films it's...

"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...

From a single camera position, two young women are photographed lighting a cigarette. After several puffs, one of the young ladies becomes faint, and...

Reenactment of action in the Spanish-American War.

Taken during the land parade in honor of Admiral Dewey, just before the turn into 72nd street...

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...

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