1898 Movies

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 curiousl...

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

Santa arrives at a house on Christmas Eve to deliver his presents for the children.

One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and...

St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and cl...

A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.

A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.

With the cameraman atop a moving train car the viewer is given a one minute glimpse of a French urban area.

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

Soldiers ambush a house.

Queen Vilhelmina greeting the crowds after the coronation.

Papa is reading his newspaper and his little girl tickles his neck with a long straw. Thinking it is a fly papa "shoos" away the supposed fly with his...

Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen.

Parade of guards during Queen Wilhelminas coronation.

A hypnotist tricks his patients.

A preadolescent boy, dressed like a street urchin, performs acrobatic stunts for the camera.

This picture was taken on the line of the Mt. Tamalpais Scene R.R., and whereas the previous views were taken ascending, this is a descending view, th...

A review of engineers at the Longchamp parade, filmed by the Lumière brothers.