1898 Movies

Short film from 1897

A folk dance staged in the ruins of Pompeii. With the Arch of Tiberius in the near distance and Arch of Caligula in far distance. A troop of soldiers,...

Four men of different ranks play a game of tetherball on a ship's deck.

An active outdoor film with cattle being driven from an outdoor corral by mounted cowboys.

Film adaptation of the famous French folktale by Georges Hatot.

The festive start and disastrous aftermath of the launch of the H.M.S. Albion.

Sailors disembarking on the beach in Scheveningen, Netherlands. Shot on 68 mm Mutoscope-Biograph.

The film is part of Eye Filmmuseum’s Mutoscope and Biograph Collection. This collection consists of about 200 films preserved on their original 68 mm...

A woman slips into her bed with the help of her servant. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook p...

The Humpty Dumpty Circus is the first animated short film created in stop-motion technique. It features a circus with acrobats and animals in motion.

Views of Buffalo Bills Wild West Show.

The Reading's [Pennsylvania] pitcher has just let a Newark [New Jersey] batsman walk to first. Our camera is stationed about twenty feet from the bag,...

Staging of the title event.

Film shot by W.K.L. Dickson at Maidenhead Junction, 1898.

Children entering and exiting a schoolhouse.

The ghost of a man's twin shows him a vision of how he was killed in a duel.