1899 Movies

A snippet of the Paris Grand Prix from June 19th, 1899. Elegant people in horses and buggies zoom around a bend, surrounded by spectators on either si...

Wilhelm II. returns from his trip to Bethlehem

Shows a group of sailors and an officer at the stern. The flag runs out in a ball to the end of the staff, and, at the signal, is broken. Proudly the...

A couple of women stand in a field, using pitch forks to separate burning grass. Men run away from the event. Meanwhile, a third woman stands to the r...

An acrobatic act.

Short film of the audience leaving the afternoon show at Circus Carré in Amsterdam. In the early years of film, shots of visitors after a performance...

Parade of mountaineers and shepherds guiding their flocks in a street.

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

In [Admiral] Dewey land parade.

People spill drink on themselves, supposedly after a poker game during the Yukon Gold Rush.

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

A countryman goes to see a spiritualist and is frightened by what he sees.

A lost film. A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it. This film is presumably lost.

Edison released this as part of their "Northern Pacific Rainway" and "Alaska and Yellowstone National Park" series.

A very amusing picture, showing a crowd of children and old folks disporting on a sand hill in one of the big public parks of Berlin. This picture is...