1899 Movies

Short film of the audience leaving the afternoon show at Circus Carré in Amsterdam. In the early years of film, shots of visitors after a performance...

Soldiers parade to the sound of military marches during the inauguration ceremony of Victor Emanuel II's monument in Turin.

A military procession.

A view from the rear of a ship; A hypnotic study of the wake of a ship at sea.

Men leaving for a fox hunt.

People enjoying themselves in a swimming pool.

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

"Taken from moving cable car leaving Brooklyn train yard, crossing entire span and arriving at New York terminus in City Hall station."

"This is taken from the front end of a locomotive following an express train at high speed around the high curves, from the 104th to 116 Street statio...

Taken during the land parade in honor of Admiral Dewey, just before the turn into 72nd street...

Output of the quadrille and the beginning of the race for three quarters.

A postman sits in a garden chair and is served with food by a maid. He kisses her. The amorous couple are then squirted with water from a garden syrin...

A boy leaves a surprise for a couple sitting down for dinner.

Thérèse Rentz rides a bay horse.

Two mounted bay horses follow each other in line.

A bay horse trots.

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

In this spirited and suggestive film, an aggressive young man is drenched in rich, high-protein comeuppance, after he attempts to tell a dairymaid her...