1899 Movies

A carriage draws up, wheeling to a stop right in front of the camera. There is a cut and the camera has drawn back. The duchess steps out, pauses, the...

A group of supervised orphan girls walking through the streets of Amsterdam. Shot on 68mm Mutoscope-Biograph.

"This scene shows a crowd of newsboys running to meet the 'World' newspaper delivery wagon, and falling back to the point of distribution. There is a...

Short film of the audience leaving the afternoon show at Circus Carré in Amsterdam. In the early years of film, shots of visitors after a performance...

"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 out...

Wilhelm II. arrives in Haifa, Israel.

Signalling from a British trench during the Boer war.

Panorama of a mountainside railroad.

This is a ladies cycling display in the summer of 1899 in London, England. It is a display/show by the Catford Cycling Club.

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

A military procession.

Boers kill a dozing sentry, attack the camp and rob dead soldiers.

An exhibition of water throwing by the Ocean Company of Green, N.Y., using an old-fashioned hand power engine.

"This is taken from the front end of a locomotive following an express train at high speed around the high curves, from the 104th to 116 Street statio...

In September of 1899, the French cameraman Emile Lauste visited the Netherlands for the second time that year. [...] One of the subjects that Lauste b...

Leopoldo Fregoli as a magician.

Kaiser Wilhelm II arrives in Constantinople.

"A novel form of aquatic sports at Bath Beach. This has a very humorous effect in reversed motion."