The best movies 1899

A fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella's rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets...

Also known as The Operation of Dr. Alejandro Posadas. Filmed with early orthochromatic film in the Hospital de Clínicas de la Ciudad in Buenos...

A lost film. A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it. This film is presumably lost.

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

A priest is officiating at a convent, when suddenly he is transformed into the devil, who frightens away the nuns and turns the place into...

The Buffoons are artists in their line. They tumble in and out of trick doors, disappear and reappear in unexpected places in most unexpected ways....

This film captures the departure of the 2nd Special Service Battalion, Canadian Infantry, from Quebec for the war in South Africa. Soldiers in...

View of the German and Italian royal processions, at the iron mines of Monteponi.

Based on Shakespeare's play, Act V, Scene vii: King John is in torment, and his supporters fear that his end is near. As he writhes in agony, he is...

Sailors clamber up the rigging. Filmed at Portsmouth.

Traffic and crowd in front of the stalls of a street market.

Women getting onto a rickshaw.

A parade of Gordon Highlanders in dress uniform march through the centre of Aberdeen on their way to the Boer War. Small children run around in...

A very amusing picture, showing a crowd of children and old folks disporting on a sand hill in one of the big public parks of Berlin. This picture is...

During an interval in the proceedings of the court martial, the journalists enter into an animated discussion, resulting in a dispute between Arthur...

Showing the tapping of the furnace, and the running of the molten metal into the moulds at Elswick yard.

A short clip of Wilhelmina and her mother Emma in a horse-drawn carriage, receiving flowers from the crowd.

View of the audience, following the launch of a ship.

Also known as The Operation of Dr. Alejandro Posadas. Filmed with early orthochromatic film in the Hospital de Clínicas de la Ciudad in Buenos...

Short documentary directed by Ángel García Cardona. It is considered the first picture to be filmed in Valencia.