Movies 1898 Page 6

With the cameraman atop a moving train car the viewer is given a one minute glimpse of a French urban area.

The boulevard in front of the Kurhaus, with pedestrians and a terrace.

A group of monks in procession carrying a large crucifix in Vatican City, 1898.

Shows canal running through the suburban village of Santa Anita. Men and women pole their flat-bottom boats along, loaded down with garden produce.

Scene filmed in the town of St. Gallen.

One of the two earliest horror films ever made. This film is presumed lost.

A British Mutoscope & Biograph production.

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

The pope taking a twilight walk.

President Félix Faure, escorted by horsemen, marching past the troops at Longchamp.

The end of the Longchamp parade and departure of the President, filmed by the Lumière brothers.

Young people dance the Tarantella

Italian and German sovereigns, Umberto I and Margherita of Savoy, Wilhelm II and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, walking down the stairs and...

Advertising in the center of St. Gallen.

A clown cuts off a customer's head and replaces it.

Carts, pedestrians and bus traffic in the street.

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

Soldiers ambush a house. This is the Alice Guy version, not to be confused with the less accessible Lumiere of the same title from the same year.

Santa arrives at a house on Christmas Eve to deliver his presents for the children.

From one angle, a line of soldiers are shown walking up the gangplank.

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...

A parade in the Vatican.

Short comedy

Shows steam fire engine in action. Men scale ladders and play streams of water on a burning building. Very realistic.

A splendid picture of the President, coming down the steps of the Treasury Building and walking towards the camera. [Description refers to a...

This short film from the Edison Manufacturing Company shows, as the title pretty much sums up, some trained cavalry horses.

Old pig and ten little ones.

"The commander of the 5th Army Corps rides forward with a party of officers. He wears a white helmet, a broad expanse of shirt bosom and a general...

Interesting types of Mexicans watch the arrivals by the train. Sombreros, serapes and mantillas give the scene a very distinctive foreign appearance.

New York City welcome to Sampson's Fleet after the Battle of Santiago Bay, Cuba.

The entry of the Torino Exposition is an 1898 film dedicated to the inauguration in Torino from the King of Italy Umberto I of Italy of the Italian...

We see a dozen or so Cubans walking a plank onto a ship.

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

Taken in Havana Harbor from a moving launch, and shows the wreck of the 'Maine' surrounded by wrecking boats and other vessels...

Satan conjures a vision of a girl, for whom an old man signs a pact and is made young. This is a lost film from George Albert Smith

New York City welcome to Sampson's Fleet after the Battle of Santiago Bay, Cuba.

Children entering and exiting a schoolhouse.

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...