1898 Movies

Staging of the title event.

Parade of guards during Queen Wilhelminas coronation.

"On the way to San[ta] Monica, Cal., the train approaches, runs through and emerges from a tunnel. Train passes in opposite direction. Camera is at fr...

Short film from 1897

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

Agents chase down rooftop criminals, and after a series of grotesque twists and turns, they finally get their hands on them.

"The first U.S. Troops to land, June 22, 1898. Transports in the distance. Soldiers clamber up from boats onto the long railroad pier." - from the Edi...

Taken at Washington, in front of the Navy Department, and shows Secretary of the Navy Long and Captain Sigsbee of the ill-fated 'Maine' coming down th...

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

During the Alaska gold rush, one way to reach the Klondike was over the Chilkoot Pass. A stationary camera is placed to see a ways down the curving tr...

The pope taking a twilight walk.

The film was filmed in Bibi-Heybat, a suburb of Baku (now the capital of Azerbaijan),during a fire at the Bibi-Heybat oil field. The film was shot on...

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

A preadolescent boy, dressed like a street urchin, performs acrobatic stunts for the camera.

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

A parade in the Vatican.

The skaters dart to and fro, swinging their hockeys and trying to hit the disc toward the goal.