1898 Movies

Short film from 1897

A canine serpentine dance.

Papa is reading his newspaper and his little girl tickles his neck with a long straw. Thinking it is a fly papa "shoos" away the supposed fly with his...

"Taken at San Francisco, Cal., at the Golden Jubilee. This picture shows a procession of the resident Chinese of San Francisco, carrying banners, flag...

Satan conjures a vision of a girl, for whom an old man signs a pact and is made young. This is a lost film from George Albert Smith

"This picture was taken from the front of a rapidly moving launch through one of the most beautiful stretches of the Grand Canal, showing many magnifi...

Another entry in Edison's "Southern Pacific Company Series", which pretty much had cameramen hanging around the train line just shooting anything they...

Eight mounted cowboys pursue an escaped steer, riding at furious speed. Fine exhibition of lasso throwing. Mexican International.

Panorama film shot floating down the Seine.

In front of each bare headed woman is a flat rock, used as a wash board. Stream of water near by.

Studies on human pathological locomotion.

Branding calves in 1898.

A depiction in the hanging of Edward Heinson, an assumed criminal assault convict in Jacksonville, Florida.

A charge full of cowboy enthusiasm by troop 'I,' the famous regiment, at Tampa, before its departure for the front.

Pedestrian and rickshaws traffic on Shijo Kobashi bridge, in Kyoto.

Clog dancing contest winner dances on dinner plate.

New York City welcome to Sampson's Fleet after the Battle of Santiago Bay, Cuba.

"Imagine forty or fifty soldier boys each with a pail of water on the ground before him, sousing and spattering and scrubbing away for dear life..."

Hurrah here they come! Hot, dusty, grim and determined! Real soldiers, every inch of them! No gold lace and chalked belts and shoulder straps...