1898 Movies

Beautiful Spanish Dance by Carolina Otero.

Studies on human pathological locomotion.

Man dresses up as a woman, and the film is reversed.

A single-camera position film of a merry-go-round at an unidentified location. The carousel makes about ten revolutions during the film.

Soldiers marching up a winding trail.

Brooklyn Jubilee Peace Parade

"Zdjęcia operacji w szpitalach Paryża" (1898) is a Polish documentary film directed by Bolesław Matuszewski, which showcases surgical operations perfo...

A bunch of naked boys jump and splash in the water right on one of the canals of Venice. There's even the tail end of one of the gondolas to make sure...

Children dancing in the street.

Two washerwomen have an altercation with a chimney sweep

Workers unload the coal they collected as part of their routine.

A staged actuality attributed to the Biograph Company, produced during the Spanish–American War. The film depicts a Jack Tar climbing a mast in Puerto...

Opening of the Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition was an 1898 New Zealand silent documentary film. The film included scenes of the Newton Band...

1898 indian short

1898 indian short

Footage by Gaumont of the famous road in France. (Title given — incorrect in French — is the one used on the BFI Mediatheque, where it is viewable).

Worthing waves at us in this mesmerising early film.

This is a wonderfully impressive picture, taken on the morning after the battle in which the Spanish navy was destroyed...

A canine serpentine dance.