1898 Movies

American Indians dancing.

"On the way to San[ta] Monica, Cal., the train approaches, runs through and emerges from a tunnel. Train passes in opposite direction. Camera is at fr...

Félicien Trewey mimes Pierrot being harassed in his sleep by a fly.

On Saturday morning, August 20, 1898, six grim battleships of Admiral Sampson's Squadron sailed into New York Harbor and up the Hudson to receive a we...

"Many spectators who have viewed this picture on the Biograph have insisted that they have experienced the pangs of seasickness. The picture was taken...

This picture of the pride of the United States Navy was made on the occasion of the Peace Jubilee in New York City...

A British Mutoscope & Biograph Company production

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

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

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

A documentary short from Edison Manufacturing Company.

"Shows steamer plunging head-on through the heavy seas. Huge waves break over the bow and wash the deck, almost carrying away the look-out."

Two bearded sages engage ina dispute before a large cauldron, from which they summon up Mephistopheles.

This Victorian duel between knife-wielding women was taken from an existing stage production, thought to be the Drury Lane theatre melodrama 'Women an...

Two washerwomen have an altercation with a chimney sweep

Don Juan Tenorio is a 1898 Mexican silent drama film directed by Salvador Toscano who was Mexico’s first filmmaker and is also the first film adaptati...