The best movies 1899 Pagina 5

Panorama of a mountainside railroad.

A group of highly skilled acrobats perform.

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

Shows the efficiency of modern life-saving methods and apparatus now in use by the fire departments. Shows the front of a building burning and two...

A bunch of cyclists going past the camera.

A moustachioed Frenchman presents his performing cats.

Near the fountain on Amsterdam’s Frederiksplein, various people kneel down in venerating poses. The film was shot from the Paleis voor...

A kitten plays with a small piece of wood attached to a string.

An early short film from the Lumière brothers.

"An interesting picture of the great inter-collegiate eight-oared boat race of 1899. The picture is taken from the judge's boat, and shows the start...

Filmed on January 1, 1899, this Edison short shows a victory march by General Lee and the Seventh Army Corps. When watching these early films it's...

A procession of young male athletes.

A miser dies of shock when the ghost of a poor woman appears.

A countryman goes to see a spiritualist and is frightened by what he sees.

A jousting event.

King Umberto I and his Staff, on horseback, parade in front of foot soldiers standing at attention.

This Edison short features famed cyclist Neidert performing a series of impressive bicycle stunts on stage, including riding backwards, balancing on...

The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer...

Parade of mountaineers and shepherds guiding their flocks in a street.