1898 Movies

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War),surrounded by curiousl...

The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and cl...

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

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

Come Along, Do! is an 1898 British short silent comedy film, produced and directed by Robert W. Paul. The film was of 1 minute duration, but only fort...

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...

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 his...

“A file of Spanish soldiers line up the Cubans against a blank wall and fire a volley. The flash of rifles and drifting smoke make a very striking pic...

With the cameraman atop a moving train car the viewer is given a one minute glimpse of a French urban area.

Santa arrives at a house on Christmas Eve to deliver his presents for the children.

A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

The film was filmed in Bibi-Heybat, a suburb of Baku (now the capital of Azerbaijan),during a fire at the Bibi-Heybat oil field. The film was shot on...

Several men in a basement barbershop become excited by women walking past the window. The ankles and knees of the passersby are visible to the men bel...

A preadolescent boy, dressed like a street urchin, performs acrobatic stunts for the camera.

During the Alaska gold rush, one way to reach the Klondike was over the Chilkoot Pass. A stationary camera is placed to see a ways down the curving tr...

Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.

Soldiers ambush a house.