1899 Movies

One of the earliest films to be shot in India apparently shows the Calcutta ghats - or does it?

A portly clubman comes home after a social session considerably the worse for the wear. In the hall he encounters a suit of armor which has all the ap...

Circus bears showing their tricks.

30 seconds of actual snowball fighting from 1899. A quick glimpse of a time gone by

“Another exhibition by Prof. Leonidas' troop of cats and dogs. One of the dogs is shown stealing his dinner from the table in his master's absence. In...

A section of the port Haliquen (Quiberon) Bretagne, at night where Dreyfus was landed by French marines, and officers after his transport from Devil's...

George Dewey was an admiral in the U.S. Navy who is best remembered for his victory at Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War, which he won withou...

Wilhelm II. arrives in Haifa, Israel.

Chrysis, a Greek priestess, is being fanned by her servant, who helps her get dressed before they both walk off.

A Bersaglieri battalion runs by, raising a cloud of dust in the process.

Twenty-five round fight.

The Jewish ex-officer Alfred Dreyfus's degradation. He stands in a military quadrant and the Adjutant proceeds to tear off his medals; Dreyfus is comp...

The Passing of the Armoured Train - A large group of British soldiers are seen digging entrenchment's under the supervision of officers. A brief secon...

A film adapted from the play Savage South Africa which depicts scenes from the first and second Matabele War.

The busy Frederick Street in Berlin.

"An exhibition of Prof. Leonidas's trained animals. A cat is stretched across two chairs, and a number of dogs of different breeds jump over her."

Shot at the Kubut-za in Tokyo and a rare record of two classical kubuki actors, Onoe Eizaburo V and Ichimura Kakuki-za VI, A surviving poster for this...

As Camilla sleeps in the garden of Tollhouse Inn, Roland steals a vial of elixir from under her skirt.

Gentlemen get into a misunderstanding over absinthe. There is no known credited director for this film, although the attribution usually goes for Alic...