The best movies 1898 Pagina 17

Despite the title, the most one can glean from this very short short is a bunch of guys having fun in a harbor.

Photographer tries to take a picture of a ghost, but it won't keep still and then vanishes.

Cops chase a pair of burglars on the rooftops of the city. Gaston Breteau filmed the original film in early 1898 for Lumiére, and also the...

A clown cuts off a customer's head and replaces it.

One of the two earliest horror films ever made. This film is presumed lost.

Karina dancing.

A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.

Foaming sea breaks over rocks and a sea wall in what is believed to be Ilfracombe, on the North Devon coast. The study of waves breaking was a...

A “phantom ride” taken from the buffers of an engine on the London and South West Railway through the Ilfracombe area: the reservoirs,...

A young woman stumbles across a cave that is populated by the spirits and skeletons of people who died there under mysterious circumstances.

This film was shot near the Union Works, San Francisco, California. Great look at the pleasure yacht "Unadilla" with her decks loaded with passengers.

​"Sceny wydarzeń w Paryżu" (1898), directed by Bolesław Matuszewski, is an early Polish documentary film capturing scenes of...

​"Sceny ludowe w Polsce" (1898), directed by Bolesław Matuszewski, is a Polish documentary film that captures traditional folk scenes from...

Leopoldo Fregoli gets free tasty samples.

The Reading's [Pennsylvania] pitcher has just let a Newark [New Jersey] batsman walk to first. Our camera is stationed about twenty feet from the...

The interior of a country school is shown. The teacher has stepped out for a moment, and all the youngsters are carrying on. Two wicked little...

A bunch of naked boys jump and splash in the water right on one of the canals of Venice. There's even the tail end of one of the gondolas to make...

The camera is on a boat traveling from Pier 14 toward Battery Park. The North River (now the Hudson), busy with tugs, is in the foreground. The...

Twelve men exercising with clubs in front of a Malá Strana's Sokol's building in Prague district Újezd.

A member of the Queen's Guards falls for the charms of a young woman. (Viewable at BFI Mediatheque).