The best movies 1899

A fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella's rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets...

Based on Shakespeare's play, Act V, Scene vii: King John is in torment, and his supporters fear that his end is near. As he writhes in agony, he is...

A little girl sits at a table, holding a container of what appears to be some sort of food. Suddenly there's a flash of movement: a tortoiseshell...

Sailors clamber up the rigging. Filmed at Portsmouth.

Women getting onto a rickshaw.

This film captures the departure of the 2nd Special Service Battalion, Canadian Infantry, from Quebec for the war in South Africa. Soldiers in...

A man demonstrates a human-powered water wheel that irrigates a rice field.

A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the...

Also known as The Operation of Dr. Alejandro Posadas. Filmed with early orthochromatic film in the Hospital de Clínicas de la Ciudad in Buenos...

Asian remake of Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory, apparently.

Traffic and crowd in front of the stalls of a street market.

A lost film. A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it. This film is presumably lost.

View of the German and Italian royal processions, at the iron mines of Monteponi.

"A magnificent picture of the launching of the 'Oceanic,' which up to that time was the largest vessel ever floated. The view is taken from a pier...

A priest is officiating at a convent, when suddenly he is transformed into the devil, who frightens away the nuns and turns the place into...

A very amusing picture, showing a crowd of children and old folks disporting on a sand hill in one of the big public parks of Berlin. This picture is...

Sovereigns and their suite passing in front of the monument to Victor Emmanuel II in Sassari.

Leopoldo Fregoli as a magician.

Showing the tapping of the furnace, and the running of the molten metal into the moulds at Elswick yard.

A miser dies of shock when the ghost of a poor woman appears.

Also known as The Operation of Dr. Alejandro Posadas. Filmed with early orthochromatic film in the Hospital de Clínicas de la Ciudad in Buenos...

Short documentary directed by Ángel García Cardona. It is considered the first picture to be filmed in Valencia.