1899 Movies

The only picture extant showing this wonderful performance of a horse diving from a staging 40 feet in height into the water. Scenes secured at the Sh...

Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe. There is no known credited director for this film, although the attribution usually goes for Alice Guy.

"A side splitting subject, showing the mistaken tramp's arrival at the Wm. Waldorf Astor mansion and being discovered comfortably asleep in bed, by th...

Traffic and crowd in front of the stalls of a street market.

The Filipinos execute a flank movement and re-occupy the trenches, cutting off the advance guard of Americans. The rebel flag waves over the ditch and...

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

A group of highly skilled acrobats perform.

A parade of soldiers.

People spill drink on themselves, supposedly after a poker game during the Yukon Gold Rush.

A soldier is promoted for bravery, marries a Red Cross girl, and goes home to his parents.

I do believe I have stumbled upon the very first exploitation picture ever made; and no it wasn't by David Friedman or Kroger Babb or K. Gordon Murray...

A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

In [Admiral] Dewey land parade.

Local workers climb the slope pushing carts.

Vietnamese children collect coins that are thrown them by two aristocratic ladies.

An excellent view of 'The Finest,' on their annual parade and inspection, June 1, 1899. The head of the column is just turning into 14th street from B...

Within a printing (printing a test).

A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the p...

Street scene: Arch de Triumph.