The best movies 1898 Pagina 3

Another entry in Edison's "Southern Pacific Company Series", which pretty much had cameramen hanging around the train line just shooting anything...

Scene of the last supper.

Queen Wilhelmina arrives to the palace during her coronation.

In this movie, dancer Ella Lola performs a Turkish variation of a "Danse Du Ventre", the oriental belly dance. In her dance she shakes, twists and...

Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

A young, dark-haired woman performs a dance inspired by George du Maurier's character Trilby, in an early modern dance style reminiscent of Isadora...

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

Sailors training with swords.

A group of children in a pillow fight.

He sits asleep at a bare table; old witch enters, raps three times, then disappears; cavalier sees table spread for a sumptuous repast....

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

Inspired by The X-Rays (1987), is currently presumed lost.

Filmmaker WKL Dickson, one-time right hand man to Thomas Edison, the 'Wizard of Menlo Park', here captures an even greater eminence, Pope Leo XIII....

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

Miners at the Solvay Quarries leave their drilling machine to flee from a planned blast in the rock face. Split Rock, NY.

Probably the first video of a Pope: Leo XIII sits in his chair with guards and attendants, then blesses the viewers.

The Switchback Railway was the forerunner of the roller coaster. Passengers sit in a small car which trundles up a swooping railway track then...

"Shows the beach at Long Branch, N.J. immediately after a heavy storm. The breaking waves dash over a row of spiles, throwing a spray high into the...

"Many spectators who have viewed this picture on the Biograph have insisted that they have experienced the pangs of seasickness. The picture was...