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...

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.

Queen Vilhelmina greeting the crowds after the coronation.

Parade of guards during Queen Wilhelminas coronation.

Queen Wilhelmina arrives to the palace during her coronation.

The film opens showing the native daughters mounted on horses.

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...

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...

Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

A hand-colored ride along the Bangor-Conwy-Colwyn Bay railroad filmed from an express train from the London and North Western Railway; Stations,...

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...

St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!

Carriages carrying Queen Wilhelmina arrive in Amsterdam

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.

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...

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

Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor.

The Statue of Liberty in right profile; No people, no flags rippling in the wind, no seagulls flapping past to mar the unmoving image of the Statue...

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

Geisha performance, with umbrella and fans, in Kyoto.

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.

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

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

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

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