Movies 1898 Page 8

Military subjects were consistent crowd-pleasers, and this film showing a near fatal accident was especially popular.

An active outdoor film with cattle being driven from an outdoor corral by mounted cowboys.

Street scene shot from a balloon.

Close-up on a face laughing & laughing, then not crying & crying.

Leopoldo Fregoli pose as various composers.

The Switchback Railway was the forerunner of the roller coaster. Passengers sit in a small car which trundles up a swooping railway track then...

The first scene in the 1898 Passion Play

Children entering and exiting a schoolhouse.

Panorama cable car of Mont-Dore.

The Statue of Liberty in right profile; No people, no flags rippling in the wind, no seagulls flapping past to mar the unmoving image of the Statue...

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

Filmed in 1898 by Edison cameramen, this actuality records Pueblo dancers performing the traditional Eagle Dance. The performers, clad in feathered...

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

Rickshaws and pedestrians traffic on the street.

A parade in the Vatican.

Street scene of LA in 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.

The title is as detailed as any description can get.

Old pig and ten little ones.

George Smith's picture of the crowds out for a stroll on what I imagine is Brighton Pier.

Views of Buffalo Bills Wild West Show.

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

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

The children come sliding down the hill on their sleds, and run the gauntlet of volleys of snowballs thrown by boys on both sides of the street.

A method soldier boys have for amusing themselves in their leisure moments. New comrades are frequently initiated by the old-fashioned sport of...

"Here is a film, one of the finest of its kind, portraying a number of colored professionals in their favorite pastime, a cake walk. This is a winner...

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.

Foaming sea breaks over rocks and a sea wall in what is believed to be Ilfracombe, on the North Devon coast. The study of waves breaking was a...

The serving girl is asked to serve the salad 'undressed' so she takes her clothes off before entering the dining room.

Four women dressed in the costume of the era perform a can-can. They were photographed from a single camera position.

The ghost of a man's twin shows him a vision of how he was killed in a duel.

This film was shot near the Union Works, San Francisco, California. Great look at the pleasure yacht "Unadilla" with her decks loaded with passengers.

Children Playing on the Beach at Rhyl

Members of the PHOTOGRAPHIC CONVENTION carrying tripods and cameras file past a waiting room on the deck of the Clyde steamer "Lady Rowena".

A man gets into an argument with his carriage driver.

This picture shows Col. Roosevelt, accompanied by Lieut. Greenway and other prominent officers of the Rough Riders, galloping up to his headquarters,...

Man dresses up as a woman, and the film is reversed.

The interior of a country school is shown. The teacher has stepped out for a moment, and all the youngsters are carrying on. Two wicked little...