Most Viewed Year 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...

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

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...

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

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

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

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...

A blind man begging for change tries to outsmart a cop.

Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen.

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...

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...

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

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

Come Along, Do! is an 1898 British short silent comedy film, produced and directed by Robert W. Paul. The film was of 1 minute duration, but only...

Showing Pygmalion at work in his studio on the statue of Galatea, who, on being completed, comes to life. He attempts to clasp her to his arms, when...

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

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

A parade in the Vatican.

A review of engineers at the Longchamp parade, filmed by the Lumière brothers.

A hypnotist tricks his patients.