1899 Movies

A little girl sits at a table, holding a container of what appears to be some sort of food. Suddenly there's a flash of movement: a tortoiseshell cat,...

A reenacted short from 1899 produced by Thomas Edison’s company during the Philippine-American War. The film dramatizes an engagement in which Filipin...

Short actuality capturing an elephant procession in the streets of Phnom Penh: elephants bearing riders, walking through public space in procession, a...

"An interesting exhibit by Hadji Cheriff, of the original Midway Plaisance. Twirls his rifle over his shoulder, behind back, under leg, both hands and...

Taken from the front platform of a special train run backward over this celebrated S curve. Not only are the passing trains and crowded platforms of g...

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

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 side splitting subject, showing the mistaken tramp's arrival at the Wm. Waldorf Astor mansion and being discovered comfortably asleep in bed, by th...

View of the audience, following the launch of a ship.

You see a shot of three horse-drawn wagons on a dirt road with some mountains in the far background...

I do believe I have stumbled upon the very first exploitation picture ever made; and no it wasn't by David Friedman or Kroger Babb or K. Gordon Murray...

Panorama of the battleships "Sardegna" and "Sicilia" at the naval review of Cagliari.

Arrival of Commander Marchand at Military Circle in Paris.

Panorama of the battleship "Brennus" flagship of the French fleet

A close view of an eighty-footer, schooner rigged, trim as a private yacht, skimming over the waters of the harbor, near Robins' Reef, which picturesq...

Vietnamese children collect coins that are thrown them by two aristocratic ladies.

A lost film. A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it. This film is presumably lost.

Within a printing (printing a test).

A London fire brigade springs into action.