1899 Movies

A jousting event.

Produced and directed by George Albert Smith, the film shows a couple sharing a brief kiss as their train passes through a tunnel. The Kiss in the Tun...

This commercial traveler has evidently had a wet day judging from the strange things he sees at his hotel. The hall boy shows him to his room, puts do...

In September of 1899, the French cameraman Emile Lauste visited the Netherlands for the second time that year. [...] One of the subjects that Lauste b...

A fishing boat is tossed by a rough sea off the coast of Italy.

Reenactment of action in the Spanish-American War.

A horsedrawn double-decker bus sits immobile at the centre of the image, with a flurry of horse-drawn carriages and omnibuses swirling around it. Then...

"In his characterization of Capt. Dreyfus and Emile Zola."

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...

View of the German and Italian royal processions, at the iron mines of Monteponi.

Phantom train ride along the French Riviera in Monte Carlo, Monaco

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

This view shows the well-known serpentine dance; in color, this scene makes for a great effect. A dancer performs the serpentine dance by twirling the...

A man demonstrates a human-powered water wheel that irrigates a rice field.

A short film

View of the audience, following the launch of a ship.

King Umberto I and his Staff, on horseback, parade in front of foot soldiers standing at attention.

A London fire brigade springs into action.