The best movies 1898

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...

He sits asleep at a bare table; old witch enters, raps three times, then disappears; cavalier sees table spread for a sumptuous repast....

Passage of a Shintoist procession, whose members carry banners and lanterns, somewhere in Kyoto.

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

Skating scene.

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...

St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!

American Indians dancing.

Directed by pioneering Catalan filmmaker Fructuós Gelabert, this short documentary captures the royal visit of Queen Regent María...

Many gondolas in Venice harbour with a fishing boat in the background

During Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

A showcase of trapeze artist Alciede Capitaine, billed as “The Perfect Woman,” whose daring feats on the flying bar combined grace with...

Probably the first video of a Pope: Leo XIII sits in his chair with guards and attendants, then blesses the viewers.

The film opens showing the native daughters mounted on horses.

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

Filmmaker WKL Dickson, one-time right hand man to Thomas Edison, the 'Wizard of Menlo Park', here captures an even greater eminence, Pope Leo XIII....

Queen Vilhelminas coronation.