1898 Movies

American troops prepare for the invasion of Cuba.

This short film from the Edison Manufacturing Company shows, as the title pretty much sums up, some trained cavalry horses.

Of the thousand and more men who left New York for the Cuban Campaign, scarcely three hundred were able to shoulder their rifles to march before the B...

On Saturday morning, August 20, 1898, six grim battleships of Admiral Sampson's Squadron sailed into New York Harbor and up the Hudson to receive a we...

A charge full of cowboy enthusiasm by troop 'I,' the famous regiment, at Tampa, before its departure for the front.

Scene of pilgrimage fair in a Czechoslavic village.

Geisha performance, with umbrella and fans, in Kyoto.

This picture has been very popular wherever it has been shown on the Biograph. To begin with, the film is unusually fine photographically, and the pic...

Acrobatics involving a couple of clowns and a dog trainer.

A view taken on the West Side drive in Central Park. Shows a continuous stream of handsome rigs and turnouts passing in both directions. Pedestrians w...

Windmills along the River Zaan.

The pope taking a twilight walk.

The film was photographed as if in the audience at a bull fight. No. 3 shows the collapse of the bull.

Rickshaws, trams and pedestrians traffic near the railway station in Tokyo.

George Smith's picture of the crowds out for a stroll on what I imagine is Brighton Pier.

Karina dancing.

As a woman waits outside of a window, a man rides up on horseback, and she jumps on behind him. As the two of them ride off to elope, one of the man's...