1898 Movies

"Imagine forty or fifty soldier boys each with a pail of water on the ground before him, sousing and spattering and scrubbing away for dear life..."

Skating scene.

Views of the burial in Key West of victims of the USS Maine.

This film was shot near the Union Works, San Francisco, California. Great look at the pleasure yacht "Unadilla" with her decks loaded with passengers.

A man surprises a woman. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu around...

This Victorian duel between knife-wielding women was taken from an existing stage production, thought to be the Drury Lane theatre melodrama 'Women an...

The boulevard in front of the Kurhaus, with pedestrians and a terrace.

From the upper windows of a ruined mill Cubans are firing at a scouting party of Spaniards, who return the volley. Fine smoke effects.

A ‘phantom ride’ taken from the front of a train passing through the Devon town of Barnstaple.

Hurrah here they come! Hot, dusty, grim and determined! Real soldiers, every inch of them! No gold lace and chalked belts and shoulder straps...

Brooklyn Jubilee Peace Parade

View coming down a hill towards a river.

A sweet little girl is seated in the bow of a life-boat feeding crackers to a magnificent St. Bernard dog, while a tabby cat dozes and blinks at her s...

A farmer kisses a lean girl.

An impressive eight-some performs some Victorian gymnastics for the camera

Short shot of the Bridge of Sighs in Venice with gondoliers