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.

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...

Scene of the last supper.

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

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

A parade in the Vatican.

Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen.

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

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...

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 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.

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 man plays the trombone, to which is attached a saw.

Soldiers ambush a house.

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...

Sailors disembarking on the beach in Scheveningen, Netherlands. Shot on 68 mm Mutoscope-Biograph.

“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...