The best movies 1898 Pagina 11

Boxing scene between two cats held by their master.

View from a train in the Montreux region.

This boat was the first one to leave for the South with troops. On board is a battalion of the 5th U.S. Infantry.

Dotting the horizon on the right of the picture is the great fleet of transports, while scattered all along the beach and piled high to the left are...

Film shot by W.K.L. Dickson at Maidenhead Junction, 1898.

Bustle in the square.

Fifth part of a series documenting the Basel carnival.

The festive start and disastrous aftermath of the launch of the H.M.S. Albion.

Several men in a basement barbershop become excited by women walking past the window. The ankles and knees of the passersby are visible to the men...

Old pig and ten little ones.

Carts, pedestrians and bus traffic in the street.

Hurrah here they come! Hot, dusty, grim and determined! Real soldiers, every inch of them! No gold lace and chalked belts and shoulder straps...

Taken in Havana Harbor from a moving launch, and shows the wreck of the 'Maine' surrounded by wrecking boats and other vessels...

The film shows visitors to the Žofín lido in Prague as they comically mill about.

A lost film. Georges Méliès also directed a film entitled Faust aux enfers in 1903 that is frequently confused with this one, but it...

Vitagraph’s Battle of Santiago Bay (1898) blended real Spanish–American War footage with tabletop trickery. Albert E. Smith’s...

Reporters rush to telegraph the latest war news.

Taken at Washington, in front of the Navy Department, and shows Secretary of the Navy Long and Captain Sigsbee of the ill-fated 'Maine' coming down...

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...

Noted for the first use of time-lapse in a motion picture.

A short documentary produced by Oskar Messter that captures the traffic at the square.

The camera sails off, giving us a view of the port from the water.