1898 Movies

Josef Sváb-Malostranský unrolls a poster in front of a mill with the words Czech Cinematograph. All the actors in the film gather around him. An old p...

This film shows the summit portion of the Mill Valley and Mount Tamalpais Scenic Railway, the Tamalpais Tavern resort, and part of the adjacent east p...

The Last Supper, part 6 of Alexandre Promio's Passion Play.

Children entering and exiting a schoolhouse.

A fight breaks out over a poster.

Film adaptation of the famous French folktale by Georges Hatot.

The Statue of Liberty in right profile; No people, no flags rippling in the wind, no seagulls flapping past to mar the unmoving image of the Statue of...

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...

Members of the photographic convention carrying tripods and cameras file past a waiting room on the deck of the Clyde steamer “Lady Rowena”. Members o...

Pelicans being released for feeding into their enclosure at London Zoological Gardens.

Despite the title, the most one can glean from this very short short is a bunch of guys having fun in a harbor.

A blind man begging for change tries to outsmart a cop.

Satan conjures a vision of a girl, for whom an old man signs a pact and is made young. This is a lost film from George Albert Smith

Taken at the Cuban Volunteer Camp at West Tampa, Fla. Men are falling into line, two abreast, every man with his tin cup and dish. Command is given 'f...

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

The film is part of Eye Filmmuseum’s Mutoscope and Biograph Collection. This collection consists of about 200 films preserved on their original 68 mm...

Film shot by W.K.L. Dickson at Maidenhead Junction, 1898.

J. Stuart Blackton filming the Battle of Santiago Bay in 1898

A method soldier boys have for amusing themselves in their leisure moments. New comrades are frequently initiated by the old-fashioned sport of tossin...