The best movies 1898

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

Branding calves in 1898.

The film opens showing the native daughters mounted on horses.

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...

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...

During Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

Queen Vilhelmina greeting the crowds after the coronation.

Another entry in Edison's "Southern Pacific Company Series", which pretty much had cameramen hanging around the train line just shooting anything...

Queen Wilhelmina arrives to the palace during her coronation.

A short documentary capturing the officers and crew of the USS Brooklyn during a naval parade in Brooklyn, New York, on October 1, 1898, following...

Parade of guards during Queen Wilhelminas coronation.

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...

Carriages carrying Queen Wilhelmina arrive in Amsterdam

New York City welcome to Sampson's Fleet after the Battle of Santiago Bay, Cuba.

In this movie, dancer Ella Lola performs a Turkish variation of a "Danse Du Ventre", the oriental belly dance. In her dance she shakes, twists and...

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

In this scene is shown a magician behind an ordinary table, upon which he suddenly and mysteriously causes to appear a large box, into which he...

This film shows the summit portion of the Mill Valley and Mount Tamalpais Scenic Railway, the Tamalpais Tavern resort, and part of the adjacent east...

A very short Edison actuality showing a circle dance by Pueblo Indians: some in feathered headdresses, others without, moving around a drummer, each...

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.