All Films

Me and Jack

1898 • 1 min • United States of America

A little girl and her dog have an accident at the Shrewsbury River in New Jersey.

Chiens savants: la danse serpentine

1898 • 1 min • France

A canine serpentine dance.

The Launch of HMS Albion at Blackwall

1898 • 1 min • United Kingdom

The film documents the launch of HMS Albion at Blackwall on the 21st of June, 1898—an event that was witnessed by 30,000 onlookers, 37 of whom lost their lives when the jetty upon which they were standing became washed away by the resultant swell.

President McKinley's Inspection of Camp Wikoff

1898 • 1 min • United States of America

This picture has been very popular wherever it has been shown on the Biograph. To begin with, the film is unusually fine photographically, and the picture is taken from a point of view which shows the immense distances of Camp Wikoff with its multitude of tents in the background.

Evian: Procession de la Fête-Dieu I

1898 • 1 min • France

An oddly routed parade.

Walking Troubles of Organic Hemiplegy

1898 • 2 min • Romania

Studies on human pathological locomotion.

Revue à Longchamp: charge finale et départ de M. le Président

1898 • 1 min

The end of the Longchamp parade and departure of the President, filmed by the Lumière brothers.

The Fake Beggar

1898 • 1 min • United States of America

A 'legless' man is begging on the street. When a coin misses his cup, he stands up to get it, only to be discovered and chased by a policeman.

Review of the Royal Netherland Guards in the Costumes of the Middle Ages (Coronation of Wilhelmina Guard of Honor)

1898 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Parade of guards during Queen Wilhelminas coronation.

Au réfectoire

1898 • 1 min • France

Some boys are seated at a table outdoors for a meal when a fight breaks out.

Mamma's Pets

1898 • 1 min

Old pig and ten little ones.

The Royal Procession from the Church after the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)

1898 • 1 min • United Kingdom

During Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

Fregoli maestro di musica

1898 • 1 min • Italy

Leopoldo Fregoli pose as various composers.

71st Regiment, N.G.S.N.Y. at Camp Wyckoff

1898 • 1 min • United States of America

Of the thousand and more men who left New York for the Cuban Campaign, scarcely three hundred were able to shoulder their rifles to march before the Biograph camera at Camp Wyckoff...

Pillow Fight, No. 2

1898 • 1 min • France

A group of children in a pillow fight.

Fregoli trasformista

1898 • 1 min • Italy

A man changes clothes immediately.

The Skaters

1898 • 1 min

Skating scene.

From War to Peace: First Departure of S.S. 'St. Louis' from Southampton

1898 • 1 min • United Kingdom

The SS 'St. Louis' departs from Southampton Docks

He and She

1898 • 1 min • United Kingdom

An amusing picture showing a quarrel between an elderly husband and his young wife, and a joyful reconciliation.

Panorama des rives de la Seine à Paris, III

1898 • 1 min • France

Panorama film shot floating down the Seine.

Pope Leo XIII Being Seated Bestowing Blessing

1898 • 1 min • Italy, Holy See

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

'Vizcaya' Under Full Headway

1898 • 1 min

"A splendid picture of the pride of the Spanish navy, taken on the occasion of her visit to New York Harbor, when her captain hinted at his ability to blow holes through New York's sky-scrapers. In this picture the vessel makes a very beautiful appearance steaming out to sea under full headway. But what a contrast to a later Biograph picture [WRECK OF THE 'VIZCAYA'] when the vessel was a smoking hulk wrecked on the shore of Cuba, battered to pieces by the guns of the Oregon."

Menai Bridge, the Day Irish Mail from Euston Entering the Tubular Bridge Over the Menai Straits

1898 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A British Mutoscope & Biograph Company production

Torres Strait Islanders

1898 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Black and white silent film from the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait, featuring a small group of young Aboriginal men demonstrating a shake-a-leg dance on the beach at Murray Island.