1898 Movies

Beautiful Spanish Dance by Carolina Otero.

"The commander of the 5th Army Corps rides forward with a party of officers. He wears a white helmet, a broad expanse of shirt bosom and a general air...

Short film from 1897

Shows steam fire engine in action. Men scale ladders and play streams of water on a burning building. Very realistic.

A group of monks in procession carrying a large crucifix in Vatican City, 1898.

Eight mounted cowboys pursue an escaped steer, riding at furious speed. Fine exhibition of lasso throwing. Mexican International.

This twenty-five second film is from Edison's "Southern Pacific Company" series. What we see is a Japanese ship as it is floating into a harbor in Sou...

Agents chase down rooftop criminals, and after a series of grotesque twists and turns, they finally get their hands on them.

A hand-colored ride along the Bangor-Conwy-Colwyn Bay railroad filmed from an express train from the London and North Western Railway; Stations, vista...

"A double-decked trolley car, crowded with passengers, approaches and passes the camera. Carriages, pedestrians and bicyclists add to the action of th...

Directed by James H. White.

The film documents the launch of HMS Albion at Blackwall on the 21st of June, 1898—an event that was witnessed by 30,000 onlookers, 37 of whom lost th...

"The first U.S. Troops to land, June 22, 1898. Transports in the distance. Soldiers clamber up from boats onto the long railroad pier." - from the Edi...

New York City welcome to Sampson's Fleet after the Battle of Santiago Bay, Cuba.

Leopoldo Fregoli pose as various composers.