1899 Movies

A crowd swarms on Amsterdam’s Dam Square in front of the horse tram. In the background, we see the outline of Central Station.

Actuality film of miners entering a mine.

A magician performs tricks. First with a top hat, then with his audience.

Shows a group of sailors and an officer at the stern. The flag runs out in a ball to the end of the staff, and, at the signal, is broken. Proudly the...

From a single camera position, two young women are photographed lighting a cigarette. After several puffs, one of the young ladies becomes faint, and...

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...

The scene opens with a salesman displaying corsets to the buyer of a country store. He calls in a female model and tries a corset on her. While the bu...

“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...

Watched by crowds, Sir Redvers Buller, Lady Buller, the Mayor of Southampton and others walk along the gangway leading to the ship towards the camera....

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

People spill drink on themselves, supposedly after a poker game during the Yukon Gold Rush.

A fishing boat is tossed by a rough sea off the coast of Italy.

Filmed while the Christian IX, King of Denmark, and his family was taking their picture.

Arrival of Commander Marchand at Military Circle in Paris.

Showing the employees leaving the factory at noon.

A moustachioed Frenchman presents his performing cats.

British officers (Royal Engineers) supervising repair work on a bridge at Frere, spanning the Blaauw Krantz River, South Africa, during the Boer War.