Movies 1898 Page 7

Patriotic celebration in Lausanne marking the centenary of the independence of the Canton of Vaud.

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

Advertising in the center of St. Gallen.

The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and...

“A file of Spanish soldiers line up the Cubans against a blank wall and fire a volley. The flash of rifles and drifting smoke make a very striking...

Scene filmed in the town of St. Gallen.

View from a train in the Montreux region.

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...

Carts, pedestrians and bus traffic in the street.

A soldier and a serving-girl are courting on a bench. A fat old lady sits on the bench, interrupting them.

Pelicans being released for feeding into their enclosure at London Zoological Gardens.

Fourth part of a series documenting the Basel carnival.

A wide plain, dotted with tents, gleaming in white in the bright sunshine. Soldiers moving about everywhere...

A folk dance staged in the ruins of Pompeii. With the Arch of Tiberius in the near distance and Arch of Caligula in far distance. A troop of...

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

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

"Imagine forty or fifty soldier boys each with a pail of water on the ground before him, sousing and spattering and scrubbing away for dear life..."

This picture was taken on the line of the Mt. Tamalpais Scene R.R., and whereas the previous views were taken ascending, this is a descending view,...

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...

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

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

"The first U.S. Troops to land, June 22, 1898. Transports in the distance. Soldiers clamber up from boats onto the long railroad pier." - from the...

This twenty-five second film is from Edison's "Southern Pacific Company" series. What we see is a Japanese ship as it is floating into a harbor in...

Magnificent action is displayed by this troop of Mexican cavalry. They approach at full speed, with drawn sabres, wheel rapidly, and charge in the...

The famous show makes a parade.

The Reading's [Pennsylvania] pitcher has just let a Newark [New Jersey] batsman walk to first. Our camera is stationed about twenty feet from the...

The stars-and-stripes and the flag of Cuba Libre flutter in the breeze, one after the other. Very dramatic. Appeals to the popular sentiment....

Parade footage.

A bunch of naked boys jump and splash in the water right on one of the canals of Venice. There's even the tail end of one of the gondolas to make...

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

The film was photographed as if in the audience at a bull fight. No. 3 shows the collapse of the bull.

It's a traveling shot from behind the railings. As the camera moves slowly along the harbor, we have a fine view of the rail. In the distance we spot...

A preadolescent boy, dressed like a street urchin, performs acrobatic stunts for the camera.

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

Representing soldiers in camp washing their clothing and a general cleaning up

The skaters dart to and fro, swinging their hockeys and trying to hit the disc toward the goal.

Man in roman costume carves figure of girl in doorway. As he finishes, the statue comes to life. The man expresses great love and desire for her, but...