All Films

Bake Jizo

1898 • 6 min • Japan

One of the two earliest horror films ever made. This film is presumed lost.

10th U.S. Infantry, 2nd Battalion Leaving Cars

1898 • 1 min • United States of America

Hurrah here they come! Hot, dusty, grim and determined! Real soldiers, every inch of them! No gold lace and chalked belts and shoulder straps...

Funeral Procession of the Misericordia

1898 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Black hooded pallbearers carry a coffin in a funeral procession in front of onlookers.

The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Palace Balcony Responding to the Call of the Populace (Coronation of Wilhelmina)

1898 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Queen Vilhelmina greeting the crowds after the coronation.

Early Fashions on Brighton Pier

1898 • 1 min • United Kingdom

George Smith's picture of the crowds out for a stroll on what I imagine is Brighton Pier.

Panorama from Top of a Moving Train

1898 • 1 min • France

With the cameraman atop a moving train car the viewer is given a one minute glimpse of a French urban area.

Cuban Volunteers Embarking

1898 • 1 min • United States of America

We see a dozen or so Cubans walking a plank onto a ship.

Cuban Refugees Waiting for Rations

1898 • 1 min • United States of America

A group of escaped reconcentrados, saved from the fate of starvation imposed by the Butcher, Weyler.

A Woman Surprised

1898 • 1 min • France

A man surprises a woman. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu around the same time

Launch, U.S. Battleship 'Kentucky'

1898 • 1 min

A fine picture of the launching of this splendid battleship; taken from the water. The vessel is shown sliding down the ways, plunging into the sea; and finally floating steadily on an even keel. A great crowd of people witness the launching and are seen cheering heartily as the boat takes the water.

Panorama during the Ascent of the Eiffel Tower

1898 • 1 min • France

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

Capuchin Monks in Vatican City

1898 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A group of monks in procession carrying a large crucifix in Vatican City, 1898.

VI. La cène

1898 • 1 min • France

The Last Supper, part 6 of Alexandre Promio's Passion Play.

Something Good — Negro Kiss

1898 • 1 min • United States of America

Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen.

The Damnation of Faust

1898 • 7 min • France

A lost film. Georges Méliès also directed a film entitled Faust aux enfers in 1903 that is frequently confused with this one, but it has little to do with the story of Faust.

Hockey Match on the Ice

1898 • 1 min • United States of America

The skaters dart to and fro, swinging their hockeys and trying to hit the disc toward the goal.

Tetherball, or Do-Do

1898 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Four men of different ranks play a game of tetherball on a ship's deck.

Carrefour de l'opéra

1898 • 1 min • France

Noted for the first use of time-lapse in a motion picture.

Cinderella

1898 • 1 min • United Kingdom

An adaptation of the folk tale.

The Dancing Skeleton

1898 • 1 min • France

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

Midsummer Pilgrimage in a Czechoslavic Village

1898 • 1 min • Czech Republic

Scene of pilgrimage fair in a Czechoslavic village.

The Magician

1898 • 1 min • France

In this scene is shown a magician behind an ordinary table, upon which he suddenly and mysteriously causes to appear a large box, into which he leaps. The sides of the box fall to the ground, but instead of containing the magician a lively clown steps forth who further mystifies the audience by causing the box to disappear, and in its place is seen a fully laid table with a smoking dinner, to which the clown applies himself. The table, however, suddenly disappears much to the astonishment of the clown, who is confronted by the magician in the garb of Mephistopheles. This he suddenly changes to that of a sculptor, and in the background is seen a pedestal with the bust of a young lady, which comes to life as the sculptor applies the mallet and chisel.

The Famous Box Trick

1898 • 1 min • France

A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.

Divers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine"

1898 • 1 min • France

Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by curiously disproportionate fish.