1899 Movies

Showing room at the military prison at Rennes in which Dreyfus the accused is confined. He is visited by his counsel, Maître Labori and Demange, with...

"An interesting picture of the great inter-collegiate eight-oared boat race of 1899. The picture is taken from the judge's boat, and shows the start a...

A man makes twenty complete changes in two minutes, combining with them dances. The changes are made in full sight of the audience. Biondi, Fregoli an...

The infamous Dreyfus is finally brought before a court martial.

A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

A portly clubman comes home after a social session considerably the worse for the wear. In the hall he encounters a suit of armor which has all the ap...

A battalion of infantry parading somewhere near Turin.

Shows the interior of the cell of the Prison Militaire du Cherche-Midi, Paris, where Colonel Henry is confined. He is seated at a table writing a lett...

A bay horse trots.

The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer wa...

Short clip of passing troops at the Dewey Arch.

Méliès appears as a court jester (a “triboulet” in French). He pulls 18th century noblemen out of a trunk and arranges them on a pyramid-shaped stage....

During an interval in the proceedings of the court martial, the journalists enter into an animated discussion, resulting in a dispute between Arthur M...

Two men box while standing on their hands

One of the earliest films to be shot in India apparently shows the Calcutta ghats - or does it?

Early wrestling footage.

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. Then...

A man and his balancing dogs.

A reenactment of a scene inside Devil's Island prison.