1898 Movies

An adaptation of the folk tale.

Noted for the first use of time-lapse in a motion picture.

A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.

Inspired by The X-Rays (1987),is currently presumed lost.

Man in roman costume carves figure of girl in doorway. As he finishes, the statue comes to life. The man expresses great love and desire for her, but...

Speakers on the Palacký Square in Prague are taking their turns under a baldachin by a bust of František Palacký. They speak to a square full of peopl...

Leopoldo Fregoli gets free tasty samples.

Reconstruction, with models, of the explosion of the battleship Maine in Havana. Samir Benhalilou contacted Méliès' granddaughter and she confirmed th...

Leopoldo Fregoli pose as various composers.

Cops chase a pair of burglars on the rooftops of the city. Gaston Breteau filmed the original film in early 1898 for Lumiére, and also the remake in l...

This short film from the Edison Manufacturing Company shows, as the title pretty much sums up, some trained cavalry horses.

The stars-and-stripes and the flag of Cuba Libre flutter in the breeze, one after the other. Very dramatic. Appeals to the popular sentiment. Excellen...

"Shows steamer plunging head-on through the heavy seas. Huge waves break over the bow and wash the deck, almost carrying away the look-out."

Several men in a basement barbershop become excited by women walking past the window. The ankles and knees of the passersby are visible to the men bel...

The entry of the Torino Exposition is an 1898 film dedicated to the inauguration in Torino from the King of Italy Umberto I of Italy of the Italian Ge...

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

Foaming sea breaks over rocks and a sea wall in what is believed to be Ilfracombe, on the North Devon coast. The study of waves breaking was a popular...

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...