1898 Movies

An impressive eight-some performs some Victorian gymnastics for the camera

Noted for the first use of time-lapse in a motion picture.

Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War),surrounded by curiousl...

Pseudo-documentary compiled by Lumière cameraman Francis Doublier in 1898: a stitched reel of unrelated actuality clips narrated as scenes from the Dr...

An artist draws very fast sketches of politicians in the manner of a music hall act.

Bustle in the square.

Twelve men exercising with clubs in front of a Malá Strana's Sokol's building in Prague district Újezd.

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

Speakers on the Palacký Square in Prague are taking their turns under a baldachin by a bust of František Palacký. They speak to a square full of peopl...

Short film from 1897

The film shows visitors to the Žofín lido in Prague as they comically mill about.

A young woman stumbles across a cave that is populated by the spirits and skeletons of people who died there under mysterious circumstances.

The steamer 'Mascotte' has reached her dock at Port Tampa, and the 2nd Battalion of Colored Infantry is going ashore.

Short reportage

The stars-and-stripes and the flag of Cuba Libre flutter in the breeze, one after the other. Very dramatic. Appeals to the popular sentiment. Excellen...

Inspired by The X-Rays (1987),is currently presumed lost.

In front of a pavilion at the Fairground in Prague have yeomanry a parade of horse riders in folk costumes. In the front there are a lady wearing a wh...

The festive start and disastrous aftermath of the launch of the H.M.S. Albion.

Josef Sváb-Malostranský unrolls a poster in front of a mill with the words Czech Cinematograph. All the actors in the film gather around him. An old p...