The best movies 1898

One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and...

St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!

Footage of the Chicago fire department in the 1890s.

Queen Vilhelmina greeting the crowds after the coronation.

A hand-colored ride along the Bangor-Conwy-Colwyn Bay railroad filmed from an express train from the London and North Western Railway; Stations,...

Annual pageant commemorating the anniversary of the Battle of Morat, the victory in 1476 of the Swiss Confederates over the Duke of Burgundy. The...

Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

He sits asleep at a bare table; old witch enters, raps three times, then disappears; cavalier sees table spread for a sumptuous repast....

Geisha performance, with umbrella and fans, in Kyoto.

This Victorian duel between knife-wielding women was taken from an existing stage production, thought to be the Drury Lane theatre melodrama 'Women...

Parade of guards during Queen Wilhelminas coronation.

Papa is reading his newspaper and his little girl tickles his neck with a long straw. Thinking it is a fly papa "shoos" away the supposed fly with...

Two fighters, in traditional costume, taking part to the national kendo tournament.

Filmmaker WKL Dickson, one-time right hand man to Thomas Edison, the 'Wizard of Menlo Park', here captures an even greater eminence, Pope Leo XIII....

In this scene is shown a magician behind an ordinary table, upon which he suddenly and mysteriously causes to appear a large box, into which he...

Sailors disembarking on the beach in Scheveningen, Netherlands. Shot on 68 mm Mutoscope-Biograph.

Two men with three lordships between them.

Carriages carrying Queen Wilhelmina arrive in Amsterdam

Probably the first video of a Pope: Leo XIII sits in his chair with guards and attendants, then blesses the viewers.

Four men of different ranks play a game of tetherball on a ship's deck.

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air. There is no credited director for this film, although three different persons get attributed,...

During Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

Directed by pioneering Catalan filmmaker Fructuós Gelabert, this short documentary captures the royal visit of Queen Regent María...

Arguably the first animation film in Spain, where two ships collide.

Don Juan Tenorio is a 1898 Mexican silent drama film directed by Salvador Toscano who was Mexico’s first filmmaker and is also the first film...

Workers unload the coal they collected as part of their routine.

A record of a bicycle race held at the Arroyo Seco velodrome, which was located in the Quinta de Iglesias street (modern day Agraciada) by Entre...

Filming of the arrival of the Spanish soldiers from the Cuban War.

Filming of a storm in Riazor Beach, Galicia (Spain).

Workers leave the factory where they work once the day is over.