1899 Movies

In this spirited and suggestive film, an aggressive young man is drenched in rich, high-protein comeuppance, after he attempts to tell a dairymaid her...

Taken during the land parade in honor of Admiral Dewey, just before the turn into 72nd street...

The scene opens with a salesman displaying corsets to the buyer of a country store. He calls in a female model and tries a corset on her. While the bu...

A train heads for a tunnel. In one car, a restless man smokes, and a woman is reading on the seat opposite him. In the darkness of the tunnel, he rise...

Gentlemen get into a misunderstanding over absinthe. There is no known credited director for this film, although the attribution usually goes for Alic...

Shot at the Kubut-za in Tokyo and a rare record of two classical kubuki actors, Onoe Eizaburo V and Ichimura Kakuki-za VI, A surviving poster for this...

Taken from a motor cab running at full speed along Piccadilly and through the Circus, narrowly escaping collision with various buses and cabs

One of the earliest films to be shot in India apparently shows the Calcutta ghats - or does it?

Crackers faux shooting and feigning getting shot in the Philippine-american war.

30 seconds of actual snowball fighting from 1899. A quick glimpse of a time gone by

Chrysis, a Greek priestess, is being fanned by her servant, who helps her get dressed before they both walk off.

Wilhelm II. visits a market place in Beirut, Lebanon.

Melies short.

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...

"This is a street scene. The rain has just ceased, and passers-by are lowering their umbrellas. A well-dressed young man meets a pretty girl beneath a...

Twenty-five round fight.

Leopoldo Fregoli as a magician.

A film adapted from the play Savage South Africa which depicts scenes from the first and second Matabele War.

An actuality film from Oct 1899 of the Colstream Guards departing on the troop ship Gascon for the Boer War in South Africa.