The best movies 1899 Pagina 3

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

"A magnificent picture of the launching of the 'Oceanic,' which up to that time was the largest vessel ever floated. The view is taken from a pier...

Shows the efficiency of modern life-saving methods and apparatus now in use by the fire departments. Shows the front of a building burning and two...

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

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...

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

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 miser dies of shock when the ghost of a poor woman appears.

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

Emperor Wilhelm II at the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem.

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

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

[DUPLICATE of the other 'Panoramic View of Frere Camp']

A snippet of the Paris Grand Prix from June 19th, 1899. Elegant people in horses and buggies zoom around a bend, surrounded by spectators on either...

Signalling from a British trench during the Boer war.

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

The busy Frederick Street in Berlin.

Carriages travel down the Champs Elysée.