1899 Movies

Positively the most wonderful series of pictures ever secured by an animated picture camera. The first scene is taken from the pond of the chutes, and...

“Showing a group of soldiers and Red Cross nurses being amused by a number of small children who are riding upon the backs of trick bears. A remarkabl...

He throws off his coat, takes the rope in his mouth, dives from the raft into the river, and under a hot fire swims to the opposite shore, which is li...

Shielded by a thick bit of timber at a turn of the road stands a company of mounted men, awaiting the order to advance...

A military procession.

Shows a group of sailors and an officer at the stern. The flag runs out in a ball to the end of the staff, and, at the signal, is broken. Proudly the...

Edison released this as part of their "Northern Pacific Rainway" and "Alaska and Yellowstone National Park" series.

Up the road comes a detachment of infantry, firing, advancing, kneeling and firing, again and again...

A reenacted short from 1899 produced by Thomas Edison’s company during the Philippine-American War. The film dramatizes an engagement in which Filipin...

Asian remake of Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory, apparently.

George Dewey was an admiral in the U.S. Navy who is best remembered for his victory at Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War, which he won withou...

Taken from the front platform of a special train run backward over this celebrated S curve. Not only are the passing trains and crowded platforms of g...

A man demonstrates a human-powered water wheel that irrigates a rice field.

"An interesting exhibit by Hadji Cheriff, of the original Midway Plaisance. Twirls his rifle over his shoulder, behind back, under leg, both hands and...

A priest is officiating at a convent, when suddenly he is transformed into the devil, who frightens away the nuns and turns the place into pandemonium...

View of the audience, following the launch of a ship.

A little girl sits at a table, holding a container of what appears to be some sort of food. Suddenly there's a flash of movement: a tortoiseshell cat,...

You see a shot of three horse-drawn wagons on a dirt road with some mountains in the far background...