1899 Movies

You see a shot of three horse-drawn wagons on a dirt road with some mountains in the far background...

Recreation of military maneuvers in the Philippines in the Spanish-American War.

Positively the most wonderful series of pictures ever secured by an animated picture camera. The first scene is taken from the pond of the chutes, and...

The scene opens with a salesman displaying corsets to the buyer of a country store. He calls in a female model and tries a corset on her. While the bu...

The clown and his automobile enters with great puffs of smoke

The Buffoons are artists in their line. They tumble in and out of trick doors, disappear and reappear in unexpected places in most unexpected ways. Su...

Shot at the Kubut-za in Tokyo and a rare record of two classical kubuki actors, Onoe Eizaburo V and Ichimura Kakuki-za VI, A surviving poster for this...

An actuality film of the P&O troopship Nubia departing Southampton for the Boer War in South Africa on 21st October 1899. War had been declared on the...

The famous Parisian chanteuse in the rag-time cakewalk 'Hello, Ma Baby,' with which she made such a sensation at the New York Theatre.

"Grandpa sits nodding in his armchair in the kitchen, where a sout, jolly washerwoman is washing clothes. While the woman leaves the tub to talk to a...

Parade of shepherds leading their flock in the street.

Chrysis, a Greek priestess, is being fanned by her servant, who helps her get dressed before they both walk off.

"A panoramic view of the 'Raleigh,' as she lies at anchor off 27th Street, North River, April 17, 1899. Captain Coghlan stands among a group of office...

Thérèse Rentz rides a bay horse.

Leopoldo Fregoli as a magician.

An actuality film from Oct 1899 of the Colstream Guards departing on the troop ship Gascon for the Boer War in South Africa.

A man and his balancing dogs.

Herbert Campbell is filmed here in the Biograph studio, which was situated at that time on the Thames Embankment. Campbell is dressed as 'Little Bobby...

A moustachioed Frenchman presents his performing cats.

A group of supervised orphan girls walking through the streets of Amsterdam. Shot on 68mm Mutoscope-Biograph.