The best movies 1898 Pagina 14

The Humpty Dumpty Circus is the first animated short film created in stop-motion technique. It features a circus with acrobats and animals in motion.

George Smith's picture of the crowds out for a stroll on what I imagine is Brighton Pier.

Agents chase down rooftop criminals, and after a series of grotesque twists and turns, they finally get their hands on them.

Close-up on a face laughing & laughing, then not crying & crying.

Footage of the Chicago fire department in the 1890s.

An adaptation of the folk tale.

"A great pack train approaches rapidly, following the gray bell-mule. Cowboys dash to and fro, keeping them bunched. Clouds of dust arise as they...

"Shows steamer plunging head-on through the heavy seas. Huge waves break over the bow and wash the deck, almost carrying away the look-out."

The Switchback Railway was the forerunner of the roller coaster. Passengers sit in a small car which trundles up a swooping railway track then...

On Saturday morning, August 20, 1898, six grim battleships of Admiral Sampson's Squadron...

A soldier and a serving-girl are courting on a bench. A fat old lady sits on the bench, interrupting them.

Short comedy

"The first U.S. Troops to land, June 22, 1898. Transports in the distance. Soldiers clamber up from boats onto the long railroad pier." - from the...

A depiction in the hanging of Edward Heinson, an assumed criminal assault convict in Jacksonville, Florida.

The stars-and-stripes and the flag of Cuba Libre flutter in the breeze, one after the other. Very dramatic. Appeals to the popular sentiment....

Four men of different ranks play a game of tetherball on a ship's deck.

A balcony courting scene turns into a man being beaten in a sack.