All Films

Royal Photographic Convention - Glasgow

1898 • 1 min

Members of the PHOTOGRAPHIC CONVENTION carrying tripods and cameras file past a waiting room on the deck of the Clyde steamer "Lady Rowena".

Mardi Gras Carnival

1898 • 2 min

The film is part of Eye Filmmuseum’s Mutoscope and Biograph Collection. This collection consists of about 200 films preserved on their original 68 mm format. The digital file provided is scanned in 2022 at Eye Collection Center, from the 35 mm duplicate negative that was made in 1998. After the first analogue preservation round made 25 years ago, Eye is now undertaking the digital restoration of the Mutoscope & Biograph Collection. “Mardi Gras Carnival” became the focus of attention, thanks to its inclusion within ‘The Artistry of REX’ exhibition, that opened in the summer of 2022 at the Louisiana State Museum.

Duel to the Death

1898 • 1 min • United Kingdom

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.

Pere cotte

1898 • 1 min • Italy

Leopoldo Fregoli gets free tasty samples.

Cake Walk

1898 • 1 min • United States of America

"Here is a film, one of the finest of its kind, portraying a number of colored professionals in their favorite pastime, a cake walk. This is a winner and is bound to win applause. Be sure to ask for this film; it's a corker. Very laughable."

Irish Mail – L.& N.W. Railway – Taking up Water at Full Speed

1898 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Backward tracking shot of a train going from Bushey, England, near the end of its journey to Euston.

Panoramic View of Conway on the L. & N.W. Railway

1898 • 2 min • United Kingdom

A hand-colored ride along the Bangor-Conwy-Colwyn Bay railroad filmed from an express train from the London and North Western Railway; Stations, vistas and a tunnel under the Conwy Castle (misspelled in the title) in North Wales.

Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Emerging from the Boathouse

1898 • 1 min • United Kingdom

"The Worthing Station is some distance from the shore, and whenever there is a wreck the life-boat is dragged to the scene on a huge truck drawn by eight horses. Our picture shows the life-boat responding to an alarm. The horses start out from the station at a gallop, and the members of the crew run beside the boat. This negative is unusually fine photographically."

The Bridge of Sighs, Venice

1898 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Short shot of the Bridge of Sighs in Venice with gondoliers

Pelicans at the Zoo

1898 • 1 min • United Kingdom

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

Oil Gush Fire in Bibiheybat

1898 • 1 min • Russia

The film was filmed in Bibi-Heybat, a suburb of Baku (now the capital of Azerbaijan), during a fire at the Bibi-Heybat oil field. The film was shot on 35mm film by the Lumiere brothers in 1898. On August 2 of the same year, a demonstration of Alexander Michon's program took place, which included the film "Fire at an oil fountain in Bibiheybat".

Me and My Two Friends

1898 • 1 min • United Kingdom

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.

Soldiers Washing Dishes

1898 • 1 min • United States of America

The title is as detailed as any description can get.

Burial of the 'Maine' Victims

1898 • 2 min • United States of America

Views of the burial in Key West of victims of the USS Maine.

Military Camp at Tampa, Taken from Train

1898 • 1 min • United States of America

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

The Exhibition Sausage Seller and the Billposter

1898 • 1 min

A fight breaks out over a poster.

The Boulevard of Scheveningen

1898 • 1 min • Netherlands, United Kingdom

The boulevard in front of the Kurhaus, with pedestrians and a terrace.

Wreck of the Battleship 'Maine'

1898 • 1 min • United States of America

Taken in Havana Harbor from a moving launch, and shows the wreck of the 'Maine' surrounded by wrecking boats and other vessels...

Tossing a Nigger in a Blanket

1898 • 1 min • United States of America

A method soldier boys have for amusing themselves in their leisure moments. New comrades are frequently initiated by the old-fashioned sport of tossing in a blanket. The newly arrived recruit, who is the victim of their sport, enjoys himself, perhaps, less than the other participants.

The Oil Gush in Balakhany

1898 • 1 min • Russia

A film directed by the pioneer of cinema in Azerbaijan, Alexandre Michon, it was filmed on August 4, 1898 in Balakhany, Baku and presented at the International Paris Exhibition. The film was shot using a 35mm film on a Lumière cinematograph. Silent movie. (Wikipedia)

How Bridget Served the Salad Undressed

1898 • 1 min • United States of America

The serving girl is asked to serve the salad 'undressed' so she takes her clothes off before entering the dining room.

Karina

1898 • 1 min

Anonymously directed is Karina (1902), less than half a minute of a vaudeville can-can dancer. She's shown in voluminous skirt hanging to the floor, which she often lifts to reveal her legs & much more in bodysock.

U.S. Cavalry Supplies Unloading at Tampa, Florida

1898 • 1 min • United States of America

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

Workers Repairing a Sidewalk with Bitumen

1898 • 1 min • France

Workmen fix a walkway with bitumen.