1898 Movies

"The first U.S. Troops to land, June 22, 1898. Transports in the distance. Soldiers clamber up from boats onto the long railroad pier." - from the Edi...

Backstage, between two curtained doors on either side, Fregoli is seated in the center, dressed in a tight-fitting suit and assisted by two helpers. H...

A balcony courting scene turns into a man being beaten in a sack.

Josef Sváb-Malostranský unrolls a poster in front of a mill with the words Czech Cinematograph. All the actors in the film gather around him. An old p...

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

We see a dozen or so Cubans walking a plank onto a ship.

A depiction in the hanging of Edward Heinson, an assumed criminal assault convict in Jacksonville, Florida.

A splendid picture of the President, coming down the steps of the Treasury Building and walking towards the camera. [Description refers to a re-issued...

March Past During Corpus Christi Feast in Hradčany

"A great pack train approaches rapidly, following the gray bell-mule. Cowboys dash to and fro, keeping them bunched. Clouds of dust arise as they pass...

Film shot by W.K.L. Dickson at Maidenhead Junction, 1898.

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With the cameraman atop a moving train car the viewer is given a one minute glimpse of a French urban area.

A young woman stumbles across a cave that is populated by the spirits and skeletons of people who died there under mysterious circumstances.

This picture has been very popular wherever it has been shown on the Biograph. To begin with, the film is unusually fine photographically, and the pic...

Anniversary celebration in Dresden with Emperor Wilhelm II, Emperor Franz Joseph I, and King Albert in 1889.

A method soldier boys have for amusing themselves in their leisure moments. New comrades are frequently initiated by the old-fashioned sport of tossin...

Work on the wreck of the ship "Maine."

A man surprises a woman. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu around...

A soldier and a serving-girl are courting on a bench. A fat old lady sits on the bench, interrupting them.