Most Viewed Year 1898

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

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...

Santa arrives at a house on Christmas Eve to deliver his presents for the children.

Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by...

A parade in the Vatican.

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...

With the cameraman atop a moving train car the viewer is given a one minute glimpse of a French urban area.

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...

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

A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.

A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.

“A file of Spanish soldiers line up the Cubans against a blank wall and fire a volley. The flash of rifles and drifting smoke make a very...

A film directed by the pioneer of cinema in Azerbaijan, Alexandre Michon, it was filmed on August 4, 1898 in Balakhany, Baku and presented at the...

Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen.

Scene of the last supper.

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and...

This picture was taken on the line of the Mt. Tamalpais Scene R.R., and whereas the previous views were taken ascending, this is a descending view,...

An oddly routed parade.