1898 Movies

The Reading's [Pennsylvania] pitcher has just let a Newark [New Jersey] batsman walk to first. Our camera is stationed about twenty feet from the bag,...

Close-up on a face laughing & laughing, then not crying & crying.

A group of young women and children enjoy a rowdy picnic in the countryside.

Seagulls flock around a moving ferryboat in San Francisco Bay in this 2-shot short film.

DUPLICATE of Countryside Near Amsterdam? [A draught-dog, unwilling to do its work, lets its load fall into the water.]

Eight mounted cowboys pursue an escaped steer, riding at furious speed. Fine exhibition of lasso throwing. Mexican International.

The film is part of Eye Filmmuseum’s Mutoscope and Biograph Collection. This collection consists of about 200 films preserved on their original 68 mm...

J. Stuart Blackton filming the Battle of Santiago Bay in 1898

The film opens showing the native daughters mounted on horses.

Despite the title, the most one can glean from this very short short is a bunch of guys having fun in a harbor.

This film was shot near the Union Works, San Francisco, California. Great look at the pleasure yacht "Unadilla" with her decks loaded with passengers.

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

The SS 'St. Louis' departs from Southampton Docks

The large war vessel slides slowly down the ways, stern first. Rowboats in the foreground rock violently in the swell. One boat upsets.

A group of monks in procession carrying a large crucifix in Vatican City, 1898.

A man plays the trombone, to which is attached a saw.

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