The best movies 1899 Pagina 3

Panorama of the battleships "Sardegna" and "Sicilia" at the naval review of Cagliari.

Film by W.K.L. Dickson; Rounding a bend in the track, we behold Windsor Castle.

British officers (Royal Engineers) supervising repair work on a bridge at Frere, spanning the Blaauw Krantz River, South Africa, during the Boer War.

A group of highly skilled acrobats perform.

A young woman in traditional Japanese attire fixes her hair and kimono while her servants assist her.

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

A military parade through Berlin.

A group of riders demonstrate equestrian vaulting, or voltige, on the outskirts of Prague.

Emperor Wilhelm II at the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem.

Taken from the front platform of a special train run backward over this celebrated S curve. Not only are the passing trains and crowded platforms of...

Short actuality capturing an elephant procession in the streets of Phnom Penh: elephants bearing riders, walking through public space in procession,...

Within a printing (printing a test).

A snippet of the Paris Grand Prix from June 19th, 1899. Elegant people in horses and buggies zoom around a bend, surrounded by spectators on either...

Signalling from a British trench during the Boer war.

The Astor Battery became famous after the Spanish-American war and these young men are on display in this Edison short, which was shot on Saturday,...

The Buffoons are artists in their line. They tumble in and out of trick doors, disappear and reappear in unexpected places in most unexpected ways....

View of the audience, following the launch of a ship.

Rowdy patrons visit an Old West saloon.

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

[DUPLICATE of the other 'Panoramic View of Frere Camp']

Near the fountain on Amsterdam’s Frederiksplein, various people kneel down in venerating poses. The film was shot from the Paleis voor...