1898 Movies

The Statue of Liberty in right profile; No people, no flags rippling in the wind, no seagulls flapping past to mar the unmoving image of the Statue of...

The film documents the launch of HMS Albion at Blackwall on the 21st of June, 1898—an event that was witnessed by 30,000 onlookers, 37 of whom lost th...

Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor.

The festive start and disastrous aftermath of the launch of the H.M.S. Albion.

A lost film. Georges Méliès also directed a film entitled Faust aux enfers in 1903 that is frequently confused with this one, but it has little to do...

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 leaps....

Boxing scene between two cats held by their master.

The Switchback Railway was the forerunner of the roller coaster. Passengers sit in a small car which trundles up a swooping railway track then perform...

Taken on the line of the Mt. Tamalpais scenic railroad, Marin county, California, from a flat car following the engine.

An oddly routed parade.

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. Th...

A fight breaks out over a poster.

The S.S. Australia departs from San Francisco Bay, carrying American soldiers to the Philippines.

Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen.

A film directed by the pioneer of cinema in Azerbaijan, Alexandre Michon, it was filmed on August 4, 1898 in Balakhany, Baku and presented at the Inte...

A blind man begging for change tries to outsmart a cop.

This picture was taken on the line of the Mt. Tamalpais Scene R.R., and whereas the previous views were taken ascending, this is a descending view, th...

A hypnotist tricks his patients.