1899 Movies

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

"A splendid marching picture of the brave Gordons in bearskins and kilts passing before Lord Wolseley."

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...

This rapid panorama isn't as smooth as the average 'Phantom Ride' - an early example of 'shaky-cam' war photography? Filmmaker WKL Dickson asked that...

Two grotesque minstrels are seen playing beneath a fair lady's window. She appears, and encourages one of them. The disappointed minstrel thereupon ki...

Sailors practice rescuing someone who's fallen overboard.

Leopoldo Fregoli as a flirting soldier.

"Positively the most realistic and exciting fire run ever offered to exhibitors. It shows the entire horseless fire department of Boston, accompanied...

An excellent picture of this popular excursion boat, taken on the second day of the International Cup Race Oct. 5, 1899. The racing yacht 'Columbia' a...

Showing the chief and his fire wagon, chemical engine, water tower, and several three-horse engines at full speed on their way to the fire, Buffalo, N...

Kaiser Wilhelm II appears before the people in Damascus.

A section of the port Haliquen (Quiberon) Bretagne, at night where Dreyfus was landed by French marines, and officers after his transport from Devil's...

A train heads for a tunnel. In one car, a restless man smokes, and a woman is reading on the seat opposite him. In the darkness of the tunnel, he rise...

A dancing girl.

A cab is hailed in front of a palatial mansion by a gentleman who wishes a score of people driven to another part of the city. A clown jumps out and a...

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

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...

Two women in long skirts, wearing hats, and carrying umbrellas, gossip beside a fence. Two men on the other side of the fence reach through from under...

"In this picture is shown a group of ten of the most magnificent St. Bernard dogs in the world; all of them being many times prize winners. The dogs c...