The best movies 1899 Pagina 15

Studies on human pathological locomotion.

Boers kill a dozing sentry, attack the camp and rob dead soldiers.

This picture is very novel and interesting. It gives the complete trip from the station at the New York City end of the bridge to the station at the...

A knight performs several magic tricks with a disembodied head materialized from a chalkboard drawing.

The Passing of the Armoured Train - A large group of British soldiers are seen digging entrenchment's under the supervision of officers. A brief...

Two men box while standing on their hands

"In this picture is shown a group of ten of the most magnificent St. Bernard dogs in the world; all of them being many times prize winners. The dogs...

A short documentary depicting the training of circus monkeys.

Kaiser Wilhelm II appears before the people in Damascus.

A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

A carriage draws up, wheeling to a stop right in front of the camera. There is a cut and the camera has drawn back. The duchess steps out, pauses,...

American Mutoscope & Biograph

An actuality film of the P&O troopship Nubia departing Southampton for the Boer War in South Africa on 21st October 1899. War had been declared on...

Builders fight on the scaffold of Paul's new studio until one falls and is injured.

Procession of suspiciously neat troops. This film has long been recorded in the NFTVA records as being of the Boer War, however it is probably film...

"This scene shows a crowd of newsboys running to meet the 'World' newspaper delivery wagon, and falling back to the point of distribution. There is a...

"A splendid marching picture of the brave Gordons in bearskins and kilts passing before Lord Wolseley."

This scene is laid in a barber shop. A customer enters and takes his seat in the chair. The barber places the cloth about his neck, sharpens his...

“Mr. and Mrs. Hayseed have heard of this wonderful Professor, and come to his office. They waken him from a trance, give him a fee and he...

This rapid panorama isn't as smooth as the average 'Phantom Ride' - an early example of 'shaky-cam' war photography? Filmmaker WKL Dickson asked that...

A view of the arch from Fifth Avenue, the day after the great Dewey parade, showing the crowd of sight-seers, traffic, etc.