Movies 1899 Page 8

A knight performs several magic tricks with a disembodied head materialized from a chalkboard drawing.

A military procession.

Carriages and crowds cross a grassy area.

Showing the interior of a dining room of a modest cottage, whereto enter a young couple to partake in their meal, which is being served up by the...

Du Paty de Clam requests Captain Dreyfus to write as he dictates for the purpose of ascertaining whether his handwriting conforms to that of the...

Leopoldo Fregoli plays the guitar to set-up a gag.

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

Positively the most wonderful series of pictures ever secured by an animated picture camera. The first scene is taken from the pond of the chutes,...

Shows the efficiency of modern life-saving methods and apparatus now in use by the fire departments. Shows the front of a building burning and two...

Reportage about the visit that the delegates to the First Peace Conference at The Hague made to the floral parade in Haarlem. [...] Although the...

Shot of rocks being swept by the sea.

Sardinian horsemen parading, in traditional costumes.

By offering him a drink, the doctor gets the bed-ridden patient back on his feet in a snap.

Leopoldo Fregoli at a restaurant with a lady setting up the table.

One minute clip of the famous Paris boulevard.

Film by W.K.L. Dickson; Rounding a bend in the track, we behold Windsor Castle.

Within a printing (printing a test).

This picture shows the Columbia crossing the line, leading the Shamrock by about 1/2 mile. The Shamrock is plainly seen in the distance and she later...

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

"In this picture is shown a group of ten of the most magnificent St. Bernard dogs in the world; all of them being many times prize winners. The dogs...

Studies on human pathological locomotion.

Crackers faux shooting and feigning getting shot in the Philippine-american war.

A boy leaves a surprise for a couple sitting down for dinner.

"This is taken from the front end of a locomotive following an express train at high speed around the high curves, from the 104th to 116 Street...

A horsedrawn double-decker bus sits immobile at the centre of the image, with a flurry of horse-drawn carriages and omnibuses swirling around it....

Troyes captured by the Lumiere Brothers

Out at sea with boats passing by.

Pennsylvania's historic Horseshoe Curve, photographed by an Edison cameraman in 1899.

A crowd passes by the camera.

“Mr. and Mrs. Hayseed have heard of this wonderful Professor, and come to his office. They waken him from a trance, give him a fee and he...

American Mutoscope & Biograph

"An exhibition of Prof. Leonidas's trained animals. A cat is stretched across two chairs, and a number of dogs of different breeds jump over her."

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

This is a ladies cycling display by the Catford Cycling Club in the summer of 1899 in London, England.

A beautiful phantom ride across the Firth of Forth from Dalmeny near Edinburgh to Dunfermline, crossing the famous Forth Bridge, then less than a...

Soldiers play cards and jeer as shells burst around them.

"A splendid marching picture of the brave Gordons in bearskins and kilts passing before Lord Wolseley."

A monkey and his trainer do acrobatics in a small enclosure.

The cook in the kitchen leaves a pan of potatoes while she answers the door bell. Willie takes advantage of her absence to put the potatoes in the...