Le plus regardé An 1898

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

Scene of the last supper.

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...

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

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

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

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

Papa is reading his newspaper and his little girl tickles his neck with a long straw. Thinking it is a fly papa "shoos" away the supposed fly with...

Sailors disembarking on the beach in Scheveningen, Netherlands. Shot on 68 mm Mutoscope-Biograph.

A parade in the Vatican.

“A file of Spanish soldiers line up the Cubans against a blank wall and fire a volley. The flash of rifles and drifting smoke make a very...

Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen.

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

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...

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...

Queen Vilhelmina greeting the crowds after the coronation.

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...

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.