1898 Movies

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.

The SS 'St. Louis' departs from Southampton Docks

A woman slips into her bed with the help of her servant. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook p...

The stars-and-stripes and the flag of Cuba Libre flutter in the breeze, one after the other. Very dramatic. Appeals to the popular sentiment. Excellen...

"A great pack train approaches rapidly, following the gray bell-mule. Cowboys dash to and fro, keeping them bunched. Clouds of dust arise as they pass...

Leopoldo Fregoli pose as various composers.

New York City welcome to Sampson's Fleet after the Battle of Santiago Bay, Cuba.

Agents chase down rooftop criminals, and after a series of grotesque twists and turns, they finally get their hands on them.

During the Alaska gold rush, one way to reach the Klondike was over the Chilkoot Pass. A stationary camera is placed to see a ways down the curving tr...

A fight breaks out over a poster.

On Saturday morning, August 20, 1898, six grim battleships of Admiral Sampson's Squadron...

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

The Reading's [Pennsylvania] pitcher has just let a Newark [New Jersey] batsman walk to first. Our camera is stationed about twenty feet from the bag,...

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

Here is a freight train of thirty cars loaded with baggage and ambulance supplies for the 9th U.S. Cavalry.

"Imagine forty or fifty soldier boys each with a pail of water on the ground before him, sousing and spattering and scrubbing away for dear life..."

Workmen fix a walkway with bitumen.

Close-up on a face laughing & laughing, then not crying & crying.

The film opens showing the native daughters mounted on horses.

Seagulls flock around a moving ferryboat in San Francisco Bay in this 2-shot short film.