1899 Movies

Two men box while standing on their hands

A magician performs tricks. First with a top hat, then with his audience.

Men leaving for a fox hunt.

Taken from the front platform of a special train run backward over this celebrated S curve. Not only are the passing trains and crowded platforms of g...

Circus bears showing their tricks.

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

Beginning of a race.

At the sound of a bugle, Alpine soldiers are abruptly awakened and rush out of the farmhouse where they spent the night, hurrying to take up their pos...

Silas Hayseed arrives in town and proceeds to put up a hotel noted for its 'tables,' which are all made of hard wood. The country yokel is shown to hi...

The Jewish ex-officer Alfred Dreyfus's degradation. He stands in a military quadrant and the Adjutant proceeds to tear off his medals; Dreyfus is comp...

Four men tie ropes to a log and then pull it to the shore.

"Showing the entire trip from Brooklyn to New York. The immense towers stand out clear and distinct against the sky. The best picture of the Brooklyn...

Wilhelm II. arrives in Haifa, Israel.

A mounted black horse gallops.

An actuality and reportage film. This film captures Lord Frederick Roberts (British Army rank Field Marshal) departing England for South Africa on 23r...

Sailors clamber up the rigging. Filmed at Portsmouth.