1898 Movies

Representing soldiers in camp washing their clothing and a general cleaning up

A remarkable picture in many ways. It shows a game between two expert English teams from the go-off to the making of a goal. The photographic effects...

From Wikipedia: Sua Santità papa Leone XIII (Italian for "His Holiness Pope Leo XIII") is an 1898 short film directed by William Kennedy Dickson for...

Worthing waves at us in this mesmerising early film.

NFM B15006 VI | FLM45380 | Film from the collection of EYE (Amsterdam)

A fine picture of the launching of this splendid battleship; taken from the water. The vessel is shown sliding down the ways, plunging into the sea; a...

Four Irishmen dance a jig.

A man gets into an argument with his carriage driver.

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

"This is an arranged scene worked out very effectively. At its opening two rowdies are seen engaged in a street fight. A crowd collects, and a policem...

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

Reconstruction, with models, of the explosion of the battleship Maine in Havana. Samir Benhalilou contacted Méliès' granddaughter and she confirmed th...

Queen Wilhelmina arrives to the palace during her coronation.

The pope resting.

Passage of a Shintoist procession, whose members carry banners and lanterns, somewhere in Kyoto.