1899 Movies

"This is a very remarkable picture, showing Union Square, New York City, during the great March blizzard of 1899. The camera was stationed at the corn...

A postman sits in a garden chair and is served with food by a maid. He kisses her. The amorous couple are then squirted with water from a garden syrin...

'Armed Robber Shimizu Sadakicchi' is considered Japan's debut film and came on the heels of the country obtaining its first film camera. It famously w...

A cab is hailed in front of a palatial mansion by a gentleman who wishes a score of people driven to another part of the city. A clown jumps out and a...

Soldiers play cards and jeer as shells burst around them.

A bay horse trots.

American Mutoscope & Biograph

Short film about an express steamer

A man with a heavy beard and long hair comes into a barber shop. The barber wets down his hair, does a thorough job of cutting, leaving customer with...

The Wrestlers (1899),directed by Harishchandra Sakharam Bhatavdekar (also known as Save Dada),is widely recognized as the first film shot by an Indi...

A Bersaglieri battalion runs by, raising a cloud of dust in the process.

"An exhibition of Prof. Leonidas's trained animals. A cat is stretched across two chairs, and a number of dogs of different breeds jump over her."

Fun at the beach.

Leopoldo Fregoli as a flirting soldier.

An actuality film of the P&O troopship Nubia departing Southampton for the Boer War in South Africa on 21st October 1899. War had been declared on the...

A boy leaves a surprise for a couple sitting down for dinner.

From a single camera position, two young women are photographed lighting a cigarette. After several puffs, one of the young ladies becomes faint, and...

Taken during the land parade in honor of Admiral Dewey, just before the turn into 72nd street, with Grant's Tomb and decorated residences in the backg...

This is a ladies cycling display in the summer of 1899 in London, England. It is a display/show by the Catford Cycling Club.

One of the earliest films to be shot in India apparently shows the Calcutta ghats - or does it?