1899 Movies

Wilhelm II. returns from his trip to Bethlehem

Film by W.K.L. Dickson; Rounding a bend in the track, we behold Windsor Castle.

Showing the interior view of the hut in which Dreyfus is confined. The scene takes place at night, showing the moon through the window of the cell. Tw...

Queen Victoria seated in her carriage with her back to the camera (on the left hand side of the frame, barely visible),and surrounded by invited gues...

A short film

The quadrille enter the arena with alguazils leading the paseíllo.

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

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

A bunch of cyclists going past the camera.

Women bathing in a german bath.

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 bes...

A century-old film depicting opium smokers in French Indochina (Vietnam).

Signalling from a British trench during the Boer war.

Sailors clamber up the rigging. Filmed at Portsmouth.

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

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

A man films people passing through a gate.

Following a shot of a newspaper that outlines the hardships of living in the Klondike, there are scenes a typical Klondike town, of people on a raft,...