מערסט וויוד יאָר 1898

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by...

One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and...

Santa arrives at a house on Christmas Eve to deliver his presents for the children.

St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!

A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.

The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and...

In this scene is shown a magician behind an ordinary table, upon which he suddenly and mysteriously causes to appear a large box, into which he...

A film directed by the pioneer of cinema in Azerbaijan, Alexandre Michon, it was filmed on August 4, 1898 in Balakhany, Baku and presented at the...

Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen.

Come Along, Do! is an 1898 British short silent comedy film, produced and directed by Robert W. Paul. The film was of 1 minute duration, but only...

The SS 'St. Louis' departs from Southampton Docks

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

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

He sits asleep at a bare table; old witch enters, raps three times, then disappears; cavalier sees table spread for a sumptuous repast....

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

Soldiers ambush a house.

With the cameraman atop a moving train car the viewer is given a one minute glimpse of a French urban area.

In this movie, dancer Ella Lola performs a Turkish variation of a "Danse Du Ventre", the oriental belly dance. In her dance she shakes, twists and...