1898 Movies

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...

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 curiousl...

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.

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

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 leaps....

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 cl...

Scene of the last supper.

Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen.

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

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

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 fort...

The film opens showing the native daughters mounted on horses.

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 t...

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

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...

Branding calves in 1898.