1899 Movies

An actuality and reportage film. This film captures Lord Frederick Roberts (British Army rank Field Marshal) departing England for South Africa on 23r...

Filmed on January 1, 1899, this Edison short shows a victory march by General Lee and the Seventh Army Corps. When watching these early films it's bes...

This picture ... centers about some guard ropes moving about, perhaps in the wind, perhaps as the platform the movie is taken from rolls about, while...

A countryman goes to see a spiritualist and is frightened by what he sees.

Fun at the beach.

The funeral procession of President Félix Faure of France through Paris, 23rd February 1899.

In a square room, two men and two women, in white body-hugging clothes, try on wrestling holds, each with a partner of the same sex.

A short film

One of the earliest films to be shot in India apparently shows the Calcutta ghats - or does it?

“This is a new negative showing the entire trip from Brooklyn to New York, in which the immense towers stand out clear and distinct against the sky. P...

Filmed from the Brooklyn tower of the bridge, this is a panorama starting at Manhattan's Battery and then panning northward along the East River shore...

Showing Committee of Arrangements visit to the Admiral on board the U.S. Cruiser Olympia.

Paris seen from a boat, in this Lumière short film.

Showing the rolling sea, upon which gradually appears a cloud of mist. From this evolves the figure of Christ, who proceeds to walk on the waves. The...

A man demonstrates a human-powered water wheel that irrigates a rice field.

Two women in long skirts, wearing hats, and carrying umbrellas, gossip beside a fence. Two men on the other side of the fence reach through from under...

Shielded by a thick bit of timber at a turn of the road stands a company of mounted men, awaiting the order to advance...

"This is a very remarkable picture, showing Union Square, New York City, during the great March blizzard of 1899. The camera was stationed at the corn...

Street scene: Arch de Triumph.