1898 Movies

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

The film shows the hustle and bustle and the traffic at this prominent Berlin intersection during the German Empire.

A short documentary produced by Oskar Messter that captures the traffic at the square.

Come Along, Do! is an 1898 British short silent comedy film, produced and directed by Robert W. Paul. The film was of 1 minute duration, but only fort...

An adaptation of the folk tale.

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

The large war vessel slides slowly down the ways, stern first. Rowboats in the foreground rock violently in the swell. One boat upsets.

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

The camera sails off, giving us a view of the port from the water.

A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.

Four men of different ranks play a game of tetherball on a ship's deck.

A poster hanger gets a fight started. This is version 2 that was made and screened for the public.

Georges Hatot and Gaston Bretaeau with Henri Vallouy, a Gaumont employee, acting as cinematographer. Breteau himself seems to have taken the main role...

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

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

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

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