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...

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!

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....

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

Soldiers ambush a house.

Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen.

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

A film directed by the pioneer of cinema in Azerbaijan, Alexandre Michon, it was filmed on August 4, 1898 in Balakhany, Baku and presented at the Inte...

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

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

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...

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

A hypnotist tricks his patients.

A group of young women and children enjoy a rowdy picnic in the countryside.

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...