1899 Movies

As Camilla sleeps in the garden of Tollhouse Inn, Roland steals a vial of elixir from under her skirt.

A reenactment of a scene inside Devil's Island prison.

Filmed from the front of a steam launch in a late Victorian summer, this film offers a glimpse of our 19th century ancestors enjoying their leisure ti...

The scene opens with a salesman displaying corsets to the buyer of a country store. He calls in a female model and tries a corset on her. While the bu...

Showing Committee of Arrangements visit to the Admiral on board the U.S. Cruiser Olympia.

An actuality and reportage film. This film captures Lord Frederick Roberts (British Army rank Field Marshal) departing England for South Africa on 23r...

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 excite...

A train heads for a tunnel. In one car, a restless man smokes, and a woman is reading on the seat opposite him. In the darkness of the tunnel, he rise...

Early wrestling footage.

Crackers faux shooting and feigning getting shot in the Philippine-american war.

A man makes twenty complete changes in two minutes, combining with them dances. The changes are made in full sight of the audience. Biondi, Fregoli an...

The busy Frederick Street in Berlin.

Circus bears showing their tricks.

Soldiers parade to the sound of military marches during the inauguration ceremony of Victor Emanuel II's monument in Turin.

A crowd swarms on Amsterdam’s Dam Square in front of the horse tram. In the background, we see the outline of Central Station.

30 seconds of actual snowball fighting from 1899. A quick glimpse of a time gone by

"Showing the entire trip from Brooklyn to New York. The immense towers stand out clear and distinct against the sky. The best picture of the Brooklyn...

A man with a tin of Van Houten Cocoa is treated to a splash of water.