1898 Movies

A review of the Republican Guard and firemen at Longchamp filmed by the Lumière brothers.

Reporters rush to telegraph the latest war news.

Black hooded pallbearers carry a coffin in a funeral procession in front of onlookers.

Young people dance the Tarantella

The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and cl...

View coming down a hill towards a river.

Carts, pedestrians and bus traffic in the street.

First part of a series documenting the Basel carnival.

Sailors training with swords.

Pedestrian traffic in a square.

Boxing scene between two cats held by their master.

This 1898 film is the earliest known surviving footage relating to the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration. Sir George Newnes, who first published Con...

The pope resting.

Italian and German sovereigns, Umberto I and Margherita of Savoy, Wilhelm II and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, walking down the stairs and b...

Soldiers ambush a house. This is the Alice Guy version, not to be confused with the less accessible Lumiere of the same title from the same year.

Hurrah here they come! Hot, dusty, grim and determined! Real soldiers, every inch of them! No gold lace and chalked belts and shoulder straps...