1899 Movies

An early short film from the Lumière brothers.

Film by W.K.L. Dickson; Rounding a bend in the track, we behold Windsor Castle.

"Grandpa sits nodding in his armchair in the kitchen, where a sout, jolly washerwoman is washing clothes. While the woman leaves the tub to talk to a...

Actuality film of miners entering a mine.

A group of riders demonstrate equestrian vaulting, or voltige, on the outskirts of Prague.

A group of supervised orphan girls walking through the streets of Amsterdam. Shot on 68mm Mutoscope-Biograph.

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...

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…

A procession of young male athletes.

A jousting event.

A kitten plays with a small piece of wood attached to a string.

A moustachioed Frenchman presents his performing cats.

Street scene: Arch de Triumph.

Local workers climb the slope pushing carts.

Sardinian horsemen parading, in traditional costumes.