1898 Movies

Film adaptation of the famous French folktale by Georges Hatot.

Boxing scene between two cats held by their master.

Photographer tries to take a picture of a ghost, but it won't keep still and then vanishes.

Probably the first video of a Pope: Leo XIII sits in his chair with guards and attendants, then blesses the viewers.

There is a burglar on the rooftop of a Manhattan office building, and he is trying to break in. Two women spot him, and one of them begins beating him...

A woman slips into her bed with the help of her servant. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook p...

View from a funicular train in the Montreux region.

Taken at the Cuban Volunteer Camp at West Tampa, Fla. Men are falling into line, two abreast, every man with his tin cup and dish. Command is given 'f...

A lost film. Georges Méliès also directed a film entitled Faust aux enfers in 1903 that is frequently confused with this one, but it has little to do...

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air. There is no credited director for this film, although three different persons get attributed, Gast...

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, th...

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 Sou...

In this scene is shown a magician behind an ordinary table, upon which he suddenly and mysteriously causes to appear a large box, into which he leaps....

People entering an arena on horseback.

Views of the burial in Key West of victims of the USS Maine.

This Victorian duel between knife-wielding women was taken from an existing stage production, thought to be the Drury Lane theatre melodrama 'Women an...

A remarkable picture in many ways. It shows a game between two expert English teams from the go-off to the making of a goal. The photographic effects...