1899 Movies

Filmed from the front of a steam launch in a late Victorian summer, this film offers a glimpse of our 19th century ancestors enjoying their leisure ti...

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

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...

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

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

A moustachioed Frenchman presents his performing cats.

A bay horse trots.

A century-old film depicting opium smokers in French Indochina (Vietnam).

An embarkation reportage film from the Boer War, a popular film subject at this time. Soldiers with bicycles appear in this parade. The British Army b...

A man films people passing through a gate.

Prinsengracht is one of the main canals of Amsterdam. While on board of a ship, we'll get to see the city buildings, its bridges, and every day scenes...

The only picture extant showing this wonderful performance of a horse diving from a staging 40 feet in height into the water. Scenes secured at the Sh...

Four men tie ropes to a log and then pull it to the shore.

A close view of an eighty-footer, schooner rigged, trim as a private yacht, skimming over the waters of the harbor, near Robins' Reef, which picturesq...

Kidnapping by Indians is a 1899 British silent short Western film, made by the Mitchell and Kenyon film company, shot in Blackburn, England. It is bel...

The Astor Battery became famous after the Spanish-American war and these young men are on display in this Edison short, which was shot on Saturday, Ja...