The best movies 1898

One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and...

A young, dark-haired woman performs a dance inspired by George du Maurier's character Trilby, in an early modern dance style reminiscent of Isadora...

Many gondolas in Venice harbour with a fishing boat in the background

He sits asleep at a bare table; old witch enters, raps three times, then disappears; cavalier sees table spread for a sumptuous repast....

A showcase of trapeze artist Alciede Capitaine, billed as “The Perfect Woman,” whose daring feats on the flying bar combined grace with...

Leopoldo Fregoli gets free tasty samples.

Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

Skating scene.

From the upper windows of a ruined mill Cubans are firing at a scouting party of Spaniards, who return the volley. Fine smoke effects.

Papa is reading his newspaper and his little girl tickles his neck with a long straw. Thinking it is a fly papa "shoos" away the supposed fly with...

President Félix Faure, escorted by horsemen, marching past the troops at Longchamp.

Cops chase a pair of burglars on the rooftops of the city. Gaston Breteau filmed the original film in early 1898 for Lumiére, and also the...

A man changes clothes immediately.

Probably the first video of a Pope: Leo XIII sits in his chair with guards and attendants, then blesses the viewers.

This Victorian duel between knife-wielding women was taken from an existing stage production, thought to be the Drury Lane theatre melodrama 'Women...

Passage of a Shintoist procession, whose members carry banners and lanterns, somewhere in Kyoto.

Film shot by W.K.L. Dickson at Maidenhead Junction, 1898.

Filmmaker WKL Dickson, one-time right hand man to Thomas Edison, the 'Wizard of Menlo Park', here captures an even greater eminence, Pope Leo XIII....

Directed by pioneering Catalan filmmaker Fructuós Gelabert, this short documentary captures the royal visit of Queen Regent María...

Arguably the first animation film in Spain, where two ships collide.

Don Juan Tenorio is a 1898 Mexican silent drama film directed by Salvador Toscano who was Mexico’s first filmmaker and is also the first film...

A record of a bicycle race held at the Arroyo Seco velodrome, which was located in the Quinta de Iglesias street (modern day Agraciada) by Entre...

Workers unload the coal they collected as part of their routine.

Filming of a storm in Riazor Beach, Galicia (Spain).

Workers leave the factory where they work once the day is over.

Filming of the arrival of the Spanish soldiers from the Cuban War.