1898 Movies

Filmmaker WKL Dickson, one-time right hand man to Thomas Edison, the 'Wizard of Menlo Park', here captures an even greater eminence, Pope Leo XIII. Th...

This short film from the Edison Manufacturing Company shows, as the title pretty much sums up, some trained cavalry horses.

Reporters rush to telegraph the latest war news.

Photographer tries to take a picture of a ghost, but it won't keep still and then vanishes.

"Shows the beach at Long Branch, N.J. immediately after a heavy storm. The breaking waves dash over a row of spiles, throwing a spray high into the ai...

A splendid picture of the President, coming down the steps of the Treasury Building and walking towards the camera. [Description refers to a re-issued...

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

In this movie, dancer Ella Lola performs a Turkish variation of a "Danse Du Ventre", the oriental belly dance. In her dance she shakes, twists and tur...

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

This picture was taken after the battle of Las Guaymas, and shows a large number of wounded soldiers embarking in a rowboat from an extemporized dock....

Studies on human pathological locomotion.

A clown cuts off a customer's head and replaces it.

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

The boulevard in front of the Kurhaus, with pedestrians and a terrace.

Eight mounted cowboys pursue an escaped steer, riding at furious speed. Fine exhibition of lasso throwing. Mexican International.