The best movies 1899 Pagina 13

Taken during the land parade in honor of Admiral Dewey, just before the turn into 72nd street, with Grant's Tomb and decorated residences in the...

A mounted black horse gallops.

Leopoldo Fregoli at a restaurant with a lady setting up the table.

George Dewey was an admiral in the U.S. Navy who is best remembered for his victory at Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War, which he won...

Early wrestling footage.

Leopoldo Fregoli plays the guitar to set-up a gag.

Circus bears showing their tricks.

Sailors clamber up the rigging. Filmed at Portsmouth.

'Armed Robber Shimizu Sadakicchi' is considered Japan's debut film and came on the heels of the country obtaining its first film camera. It famously...

"This is a street scene. The rain has just ceased, and passers-by are lowering their umbrellas. A well-dressed young man meets a pretty girl beneath...

The famous Parisian chanteuse in the rag-time cakewalk 'Hello, Ma Baby,' with which she made such a sensation at the New York Theatre.

At the sound of a bugle, Alpine soldiers are abruptly awakened and rush out of the farmhouse where they spent the night, hurrying to take up their...

Sailors practice rescuing someone who's fallen overboard.

A simple - and simply mesmerising - film of waves breaking on a rocky shore.

Silas Hayseed arrives in town and proceeds to put up a hotel noted for its 'tables,' which are all made of hard wood. The country yokel is shown to...

"An exhibition of Prof. Leonidas's trained animals. A cat is stretched across two chairs, and a number of dogs of different breeds jump over her."

This is a ladies cycling display by the Catford Cycling Club in the summer of 1899 in London, England.

Kaiser Wilhelm II arrives in Constantinople.

Leopoldo Fregoli as a magician.