1898 Movies

Miners at the Solvay Quarries leave their drilling machine to flee from a planned blast in the rock face. Split Rock, NY.

Rickshaws, trams and pedestrians traffic near the railway station in Tokyo.

An oddly routed parade.

This 1898 film is the earliest known surviving footage relating to the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration. Sir George Newnes, who first published Con...

Workmen fix a walkway with bitumen.

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

These four views were taken from a riverboat; they represent the most interesting parts of the journey through Paris. Panorama of the docks of the Sei...

Seagulls flock around a moving ferryboat in San Francisco Bay in this 2-shot short film.

A most excellent picture of the grim old fortress which stands at the entrance of Havana Harbor...

Scene of the last supper.

When Battery B of the 4th U.S. Artillery came to Tampa, Fla., it meant business, and the picture shows it. One by one the big artillery-men pass by in...

Bullfighting short from the Lumieres

View coming down a hill towards a river.

Backward tracking shot of a train going from Bushey, England, near the end of its journey to Euston.

Children entering and exiting a schoolhouse.

Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen.