1898 Movies

From Wikipedia: Sua Santità papa Leone XIII (Italian for "His Holiness Pope Leo XIII") is an 1898 short film directed by William Kennedy Dickson for the Biograph Company and is one of the first existing films shot in the Kingdom of Italy. The short film was s...

First pageant celebrating the opening of the Swiss National Museum.

Film adaptation of the famous French folktale by Georges Hatot.

A review of engineers at the Longchamp parade, filmed by the Lumière brothers.

An oddly routed parade.

Scene filmed in the town of St. Gallen.

Second pageant for the opening of the Swiss National Museum.

This Victorian duel between knife-wielding women was taken from an existing stage production, thought to be the Drury Lane theatre melodrama 'Women and Wine'. The actresses are believed to be Edith Blanche and Beatrice Homer.

A sweet little girl is seated in the bow of a life-boat feeding crackers to a magnificent St. Bernard dog, while a tabby cat dozes and blinks at her side.

Pedestrian traffic in a square.

A British Mutoscope & Biograph production.

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air. There is no credited director for this film, although three different persons get attributed, Gaston Breteau, Alice Guy or Georges Hatot.

People entering an arena on horseback.

Workmen fix a walkway with bitumen.

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

A religious procession during the Holy Week in Seville, Spain.