1899 Movies

Edison released this as part of their "Northern Pacific Rainway" and "Alaska and Yellowstone National Park" series.

Shielded by a thick bit of timber at a turn of the road stands a company of mounted men, awaiting the order to advance...

Short actuality capturing an elephant procession in the streets of Phnom Penh: elephants bearing riders, walking through public space in procession, a...

A reenacted short from 1899 produced by Thomas Edison’s company during the Philippine-American War. The film dramatizes an engagement in which Filipin...

"A panoramic view of the 'Raleigh,' as she lies at anchor off 27th Street, North River, April 17, 1899. Captain Coghlan stands among a group of office...

A soldier is promoted for bravery, marries a Red Cross girl, and goes home to his parents.

The Filipinos execute a flank movement and re-occupy the trenches, cutting off the advance guard of Americans. The rebel flag waves over the ditch and...

Asian remake of Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory, apparently.

In [Admiral] Dewey land parade.

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

Positively the most wonderful series of pictures ever secured by an animated picture camera. The first scene is taken from the pond of the chutes, and...

Taken from the front platform of a special train run backward over this celebrated S curve. Not only are the passing trains and crowded platforms of g...

A military procession.

A man demonstrates a human-powered water wheel that irrigates a rice field.

A close view of an eighty-footer, schooner rigged, trim as a private yacht, skimming over the waters of the harbor, near Robins' Reef, which picturesq...

A little girl sits at a table, holding a container of what appears to be some sort of food. Suddenly there's a flash of movement: a tortoiseshell cat,...

I do believe I have stumbled upon the very first exploitation picture ever made; and no it wasn't by David Friedman or Kroger Babb or K. Gordon Murray...

Women getting onto a rickshaw.