The best movies 1898 Pagina 7

Patriotic celebration in Lausanne marking the centenary of the independence of the Canton of Vaud.

Here is a freight train of thirty cars loaded with baggage and ambulance supplies for the 9th U.S. Cavalry.

Advertising in the center of St. Gallen.

The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and...

“A file of Spanish soldiers line up the Cubans against a blank wall and fire a volley. The flash of rifles and drifting smoke make a very...

Scene filmed in the town of St. Gallen.

View from a train in the Montreux region.

On Saturday morning, August 20, 1898, six grim battleships of Admiral Sampson's Squadron sailed into New York Harbor and up the Hudson to receive a...

Carts, pedestrians and bus traffic in the street.

A soldier and a serving-girl are courting on a bench. A fat old lady sits on the bench, interrupting them.

Pelicans being released for feeding into their enclosure at London Zoological Gardens.

Fourth part of a series documenting the Basel carnival.

A wide plain, dotted with tents, gleaming in white in the bright sunshine. Soldiers moving about everywhere...

A folk dance staged in the ruins of Pompeii. With the Arch of Tiberius in the near distance and Arch of Caligula in far distance. A troop of...

Many gondolas in Venice harbour with a fishing boat in the background

Félicien Trewey mimes Pierrot being harassed in his sleep by a fly.

"Imagine forty or fifty soldier boys each with a pail of water on the ground before him, sousing and spattering and scrubbing away for dear life..."

Military subjects were consistent crowd-pleasers, and this film showing a near fatal accident was especially popular.

An active outdoor film with cattle being driven from an outdoor corral by mounted cowboys.