1898 Movies

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

This picture was taken after the battle of Las Guaymas, and shows a large number of wounded soldiers embarking in a rowboat from an extemporized dock....

A “phantom ride” taken from the buffers of an engine on the London and South West Railway through the Ilfracombe area: the reservoirs, Morthroe, Ilfra...

Studies on human pathological locomotion.

French street scene.

Clips from a football match between Blackburn Rovers V. West Bromwich in 1898.

Worthing waves at us in this mesmerising early film.

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...

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

Two washerwomen have an altercation with a chimney sweep

A British Mutoscope & Biograph Company production

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

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...

Geisha performance, with umbrella and fans, in Kyoto.

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

Windmills along the River Zaan.

"Here is a film, one of the finest of its kind, portraying a number of colored professionals in their favorite pastime, a cake walk. This is a winner...

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

Magnificent action is displayed by this troop of Mexican cavalry. They approach at full speed, with drawn sabres, wheel rapidly, and charge in the opp...