1899 Movies

A man films people passing through a gate.

Two mounted bay horses follow each other in line.

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

Taken during the land parade in honor of Admiral Dewey, just before the turn into 72nd street...

Probably part of the "Alaska and Yellowstone National Park Series" in the "Northern Pacific Railway Series"

"Down goes the Spanish flag, and up floats the Stars and Stripes. Down falls the symbol of tyranny and oppression that has ruled in the new world for...

Soldiers parade to the sound of military marches during the inauguration ceremony of Victor Emanuel II's monument in Turin.

'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 w...

Twenty-five round fight.

An early short film from the Lumière brothers.

A group of acrobats form human pyramids.

Filmed from the Brooklyn tower of the bridge, this is a panorama starting at Manhattan's Battery and then panning northward along the East River shore...

One of eleven installments of The Dreyfus Affair (L'affaire Dreyfus),a docudrama reconstructing the historical Dreyfus Affair, which was still playin...

Filmed from the front of a steam launch in a late Victorian summer, this film offers a glimpse of our 19th century ancestors enjoying their leisure ti...

This commercial traveler has evidently had a wet day judging from the strange things he sees at his hotel. The hall boy shows him to his room, puts do...

Filmed while the Christian IX, King of Denmark, and his family was taking their picture.

An embarkation reportage film from the Boer War, a popular film subject at this time. Soldiers with bicycles appear in this parade. The British Army b...

The scene opens with a salesman displaying corsets to the buyer of a country store. He calls in a female model and tries a corset on her. While the bu...