The best movies 1898 Pagina 12

This picture has been very popular wherever it has been shown on the Biograph. To begin with, the film is unusually fine photographically, and the...

A blind man begging for change tries to outsmart a cop. There is no known director for this film, although it is included in the filmography of Alice...

An impressive eight-some performs some Victorian gymnastics for the camera

Playful ramblers carrying Sunlight placards in a cow pasture in the Jura (Canton of Vaud). The respectable gentleman is none other than William...

Film shot by W.K.L. Dickson at Maidenhead Junction, 1898.

Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen.

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

Third part of a series of vues of the Basel Carnival.

A lost film. Georges Méliès also directed a film entitled Faust aux enfers in 1903 that is frequently confused with this one, but it...

Backstage, between two curtained doors on either side, Fregoli is seated in the center, dressed in a tight-fitting suit and assisted by two helpers....

The SS 'St. Louis' departs from Southampton Docks

During the Alaska gold rush, one way to reach the Klondike was over the Chilkoot Pass. A stationary camera is placed to see a ways down the curving...

Noted for the first use of time-lapse in a motion picture.

This short film from the Edison Manufacturing Company shows, as the title pretty much sums up, some trained cavalry horses.

A woman slips into her bed with the help of her servant. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook...