Movies 1899 Page 8

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

By offering him a drink, the doctor gets the bed-ridden patient back on his feet in a snap.

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...

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

The Jewish ex-officer Alfred Dreyfus's degradation. He stands in a military quadrant and the Adjutant proceeds to tear off his medals; Dreyfus is...

Showing the rolling sea, upon which gradually appears a cloud of mist. From this evolves the figure of Christ, who proceeds to walk on the waves. The...

The busy Frederick Street in Berlin.

A crowd swarms on Amsterdam’s Dam Square in front of the horse tram. In the background, we see the outline of Central Station.

Kaiser Wilhelm II arrives in Constantinople.

Sardinian horsemen parading, in traditional costumes.

A short French fantasy film.

Women bathing in a german bath.

A Bersaglieri battalion runs by, raising a cloud of dust in the process.

Beginning of a race.

A parade of Gordon Highlanders in dress uniform march through the centre of Aberdeen on their way to the Boer War. Small children run around in...

Signalling from a British trench during the Boer war.

A dancing girl.

Soldiers play cards and jeer as shells burst around them.

"This is taken from the front end of a locomotive following an express train at high speed around the high curves, from the 104th to 116 Street...

Two grotesque minstrels are seen playing beneath a fair lady's window. She appears, and encourages one of them. The disappointed minstrel thereupon...

Well-known horse-women and their mounts riding before the judge's stand at the Open Air Horse Show, Manhattan Field, N.Y. City.

Builders fight on the scaffold of Paul's new studio until one falls and is injured.

"An exhibition of Prof. Leonidas's trained animals. A cat is stretched across two chairs, and a number of dogs of different breeds jump over her."

Taken from the front end of a locomotive following an express train at high speed around the high curves of the Ninth Avenue Elevated, from the 104th...

Showing the employees leaving the factory at noon.

The cook in the kitchen leaves a pan of potatoes while she answers the door bell. Willie takes advantage of her absence to put the potatoes in the...

A view of the arch from Fifth Avenue, the day after the great Dewey parade, showing the crowd of sight-seers, traffic, etc.

Short clip of passing troops at the Dewey Arch.

Troyes captured by the Lumiere Brothers

"Positively the most realistic and exciting fire run ever offered to exhibitors. It shows the entire horseless fire department of Boston, accompanied...

Studies on human pathological locomotion.

An actuality film of the P&O troopship Nubia departing Southampton for the Boer War in South Africa on 21st October 1899. War had been declared on...

American Mutoscope & Biograph

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

"A splendid marching picture of the brave Gordons in bearskins and kilts passing before Lord Wolseley."

A monkey and his trainer do acrobatics in a small enclosure.