1898 Movies

From Wikipedia: Sua Santità papa Leone XIII (Italian for "His Holiness Pope Leo XIII") is an 1898 short film directed by William Kennedy Dickson for...

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The steamer 'Mascotte' has reached her dock at Port Tampa, and the 2nd Battalion of Colored Infantry is going ashore.

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.

Skating scene.

View from a train in the Montreux region.

"A double-decked trolley car, crowded with passengers, approaches and passes the camera. Carriages, pedestrians and bicyclists add to the action of th...

Part 10 of Alexandre Promio's Passion Play, in which Jesus is nailed to the Cross.

San Diego Beach, Hotel del Coronado. A pug dog, several terriers and water spaniels and a great St. Bernard are dashing into the water, retrieving sti...

An impressive eight-some performs some Victorian gymnastics for the camera

Soldiers marching up a winding trail.

"A splendid picture of the pride of the Spanish navy, taken on the occasion of her visit to New York Harbor, when her captain hinted at his ability to...

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

Anonymously directed is Karina (1902),less than half a minute of a vaudeville can-can dancer. She's shown in voluminous skirt hanging to the floor, w...

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

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

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...

Short film from 1897

Many gondolas in Venice harbour with a fishing boat in the background

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