1898 Movies

Four men of different ranks play a game of tetherball on a ship's deck.

There is a burglar on the rooftop of a Manhattan office building, and he is trying to break in. Two women spot him, and one of them begins beating him...

The S.S. Australia departs from San Francisco Bay, carrying American soldiers to the Philippines.

The film was filmed in Bibi-Heybat, a suburb of Baku (now the capital of Azerbaijan),during a fire at the Bibi-Heybat oil field. The film was shot on...

A folk dance staged in the ruins of Pompeii. With the Arch of Tiberius in the near distance and Arch of Caligula in far distance. A troop of soldiers,...

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

A lost film. Georges Méliès also directed a film entitled Faust aux enfers in 1903 that is frequently confused with this one, but it has little to do...

This picture was taken on the line of the Mt. Tamalpais Scene R.R., and whereas the previous views were taken ascending, this is a descending view, th...

Backward tracking shot of a train going from Bushey, England, near the end of its journey to Euston.

A group of children in a pillow fight.

Workmen fix a walkway with bitumen.

"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...

A most excellent picture of the grim old fortress which stands at the entrance of Havana Harbor...

Two old female mattress makers get into a fight until a passing man attempts to break them up.

The large war vessel slides slowly down the ways, stern first. Rowboats in the foreground rock violently in the swell. One boat upsets.

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

A religious procession during the Holy Week in Seville, Spain.