1899 Movies

"This is a street scene. The rain has just ceased, and passers-by are lowering their umbrellas. A well-dressed young man meets a pretty girl beneath a...

A film adapted from the play Savage South Africa which depicts scenes from the first and second Matabele War.

Kaiser Wilhelm II appears before the people in Damascus.

A Bersaglieri battalion runs by, raising a cloud of dust in the process.

Wilhelm II. visits a market place in Beirut, Lebanon.

A short French fantasy film.

Short clip of passing troops at the Dewey Arch.

A couple are making love beneath the window of a cranky old gentleman. There is a handsome window garden above them filled with plants and flowers. Th...

This picture is very novel and interesting. It gives the complete trip from the station at the New York City end of the bridge to the station at the B...

From a single camera position, two young women are photographed lighting a cigarette. After several puffs, one of the young ladies becomes faint, and...

30 seconds of actual snowball fighting from 1899. A quick glimpse of a time gone by

This is a ladies cycling display by the Catford Cycling Club in the summer of 1899 in London, England.

A beautiful phantom ride across the Firth of Forth from Dalmeny near Edinburgh to Dunfermline, crossing the famous Forth Bridge, then less than a deca...

Silas Hayseed arrives in town and proceeds to put up a hotel noted for its 'tables,' which are all made of hard wood. The country yokel is shown to hi...

Filmed by an anonymous, itinerant foreign cameraman. Chanchamayo is a destination for immigrants encouraged by the colonization policies established b...

A simple - and simply mesmerising - film of waves breaking on a rocky shore.

In a square room, two men and two women, in white body-hugging clothes, try on wrestling holds, each with a partner of the same sex.

A man with a tin of Van Houten Cocoa is treated to a splash of water.

A woman barber is putting the finishing touches on a customer, who is so pleased with the operation that he puts his arms around her and kisses her. A...

Taken during the land parade in honor of Admiral Dewey, just before the turn into 72nd street, with Grant's Tomb and decorated residences in the backg...