1899 Movies

Two men box while standing on their hands

Chrysis, a Greek priestess, is being fanned by her servant, who helps her get dressed before they both walk off.

Leopoldo Fregoli at a restaurant with a lady setting up the table.

A two-wheeled convoy of Victorian gentlewomen in a charming early film enigma.

A knight performs several magic tricks with a disembodied head materialized from a chalkboard drawing.

Herbert Campbell is filmed here in the Biograph studio, which was situated at that time on the Thames Embankment. Campbell is dressed as 'Little Bobby...

Shot at the Kubut-za in Tokyo and a rare record of two classical kubuki actors, Onoe Eizaburo V and Ichimura Kakuki-za VI, A surviving poster for this...

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...

Twenty-five round fight.

A man with a heavy beard and long hair comes into a barber shop. The barber wets down his hair, does a thorough job of cutting, leaving customer with...

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....

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...

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

Gentlemen get into a misunderstanding over absinthe. There is no known credited director for this film, although the attribution usually goes for Alic...

The Jewish ex-officer Alfred Dreyfus's degradation. He stands in a military quadrant and the Adjutant proceeds to tear off his medals; Dreyfus is comp...

Thérèse Rentz rides a bay horse.

“Another exhibition by Prof. Leonidas' troop of cats and dogs. One of the dogs is shown stealing his dinner from the table in his master's absence. In...

The famous Parisian chanteuse in the rag-time cakewalk 'Hello, Ma Baby,' with which she made such a sensation at the New York Theatre.