1898 Movies

A preadolescent boy, dressed like a street urchin, performs acrobatic stunts for the camera.

A young, dark-haired woman performs a dance inspired by George du Maurier's character Trilby, in an early modern dance style reminiscent of Isadora Du...

Queen Vilhelmina greeting the crowds after the coronation.

Sailors disembarking on the beach in Scheveningen, Netherlands. Shot on 68 mm Mutoscope-Biograph.

"The Worthing Station is some distance from the shore, and whenever there is a wreck the life-boat is dragged to the scene on a huge truck drawn by ei...

He sits asleep at a bare table; old witch enters, raps three times, then disappears; cavalier sees table spread for a sumptuous repast. Mephistopheles...

A man plays the trombone, to which is attached a saw.

During Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

A hypnotist tricks his patients.

The festive start and disastrous aftermath of the launch of the H.M.S. Albion.

The Humpty Dumpty Circus is the first animated short film created in stop-motion technique. It features a circus with acrobats and animals in motion.

Staging of the title event.

The skaters dart to and fro, swinging their hockeys and trying to hit the disc toward the goal.

A young woman stumbles across a cave that is populated by the spirits and skeletons of people who died there under mysterious circumstances.

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

DUPLICATE of Countryside Near Amsterdam? [A draught-dog, unwilling to do its work, lets its load fall into the water.]

Boys blow peas at the cobbler, who throws a boot and hits a woman.

Several men in a basement barbershop become excited by women walking past the window. The ankles and knees of the passersby are visible to the men bel...