1899 Movies

Short clip of passing troops at the Dewey Arch.

"This is a street scene. The rain has just ceased, and passers-by are lowering their umbrellas. A well-dressed young man meets a pretty girl beneath a...

Several scenes of Sanger’s Circus parading through Windsor Great Park after meeting Queen Victoria on the terrace at Windsor Castle. This scene is mis...

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

The Wrestlers (1899),directed by Harishchandra Sakharam Bhatavdekar (also known as Save Dada),is widely recognized as the first film shot by an Indi...

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...

A short French fantasy film.

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

A man with a heavy beard and long hair comes into a barber shop. The barber wets down his hair, does a thorough job of cutting, leaving customer with...

"This is a very remarkable picture, showing Union Square, New York City, during the great March blizzard of 1899. The camera was stationed at the corn...

The clown and his automobile enters with great puffs of smoke

An actuality film of the P&O troopship Nubia departing Southampton for the Boer War in South Africa on 21st October 1899. War had been declared on the...

A two-wheeled convoy of Victorian gentlewomen in a charming early film enigma.

London street view

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...

“Mr. and Mrs. Hayseed have heard of this wonderful Professor, and come to his office. They waken him from a trance, give him a fee and he hypnotizes t...

Two women in long skirts, wearing hats, and carrying umbrellas, gossip beside a fence. Two men on the other side of the fence reach through from under...