1899 Movies

Two gondolas, slowly approaching, dock along the wharf, and both Italian and German sovereigns disembark: Umberto I accompanied by Wilhelm II, and Ma...

"In his characterization of Capt. Dreyfus and Emile Zola."

Filmed from the front of a steam launch in a late Victorian summer, this film offers a glimpse of our 19th century ancestors enjoying their leisure ti...

The king of Cambodia visits a palace.

A parade of Gordon Highlanders in dress uniform march through the centre of Aberdeen on their way to the Boer War. Small children run around in excite...

A reel of the Noh drama Momiji-gari, in which Danjuro Ichikawa played opposite Onoe Kikugoro V as an ogress who has disguised herself as the Princess...

Maître Labori is seen approaching the bridge of Rennes in company with Colonel Picquart and M. Gast, Mayor of Rennes. They notice that they are follow...

Showing the tapping of the furnace, and the running of the molten metal into the moulds at Elswick yard.

Four men tie ropes to a log and then pull it to the shore.

A man films people passing through a gate.

A group of acrobats form human pyramids.

Signalling from a British trench during the Boer war.

Produced and directed by George Albert Smith, the film shows a couple sharing a brief kiss as their train passes through a tunnel. The Kiss in the Tun...

"An interesting picture of the great inter-collegiate eight-oared boat race of 1899. The picture is taken from the judge's boat, and shows the start a...

Showing Committee of Arrangements visit to the Admiral on board the U.S. Cruiser Olympia.

Early wrestling footage.