1898 Movies

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

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...

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...

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

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

Scene of the last supper.

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

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

“A file of Spanish soldiers line up the Cubans against a blank wall and fire a volley. The flash of rifles and drifting smoke make a very striking pic...

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

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

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...

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

In this movie, dancer Ella Lola performs a Turkish variation of a "Danse Du Ventre", the oriental belly dance. In her dance she shakes, twists and tur...

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

In this scene is shown a magician behind an ordinary table, upon which he suddenly and mysteriously causes to appear a large box, into which he leaps....

A parade in the Vatican.

A film directed by the pioneer of cinema in Azerbaijan, Alexandre Michon, it was filmed on August 4, 1898 in Balakhany, Baku and presented at the Inte...

The end of the Longchamp parade and departure of the President, filmed by the Lumière brothers.

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...