Movies 1899 Page 13

Twenty-five round fight.

This picture ... centers about some guard ropes moving about, perhaps in the wind, perhaps as the platform the movie is taken from rolls about, while...

Chrysis, a Greek priestess, is being fanned by her servant, who helps her get dressed before they both walk off.

A battalion of infantry parading somewhere near Turin.

A portly clubman comes home after a social session considerably the worse for the wear. In the hall he encounters a suit of armor which has all the...

Herbert Campbell is filmed here in the Biograph studio, which was situated at that time on the Thames Embankment. Campbell is dressed as 'Little...

Short film about an express steamer

'Armed Robber Shimizu Sadakicchi' is considered Japan's debut film and came on the heels of the country obtaining its first film camera. It famously...

A cab is hailed in front of a palatial mansion by a gentleman who wishes a score of people driven to another part of the city. A clown jumps out and...

Short clip of passing troops at the Dewey Arch.

An actuality film of the P&O troopship Nubia departing Southampton for the Boer War in South Africa on 21st October 1899. War had been declared on...

In this spirited and suggestive film, an aggressive young man is drenched in rich, high-protein comeuppance, after he attempts to tell a dairymaid...

"This is a street scene. The rain has just ceased, and passers-by are lowering their umbrellas. A well-dressed young man meets a pretty girl beneath...

Gentlemen get into a misunderstanding over absinthe. There is no known credited director for this film, although the attribution usually goes for...

Showing Committee of Arrangements visit to the Admiral on board the U.S. Cruiser Olympia.

Taken during the land parade in honor of Admiral Dewey, just before the turn into 72nd street, with Grant's Tomb and decorated residences in the...

"Showing the entire trip from Brooklyn to New York. The immense towers stand out clear and distinct against the sky. The best picture of the Brooklyn...

Two mounted bay horses follow each other in line.

George Dewey was an admiral in the U.S. Navy who is best remembered for his victory at Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War, which he won...

Boers kill a dozing sentry, attack the camp and rob dead soldiers.