Most Viewed Year 1898

Part 10 of Alexandre Promio's Passion Play, in which Jesus is nailed to the Cross.

A hand-colored ride along the Bangor-Conwy-Colwyn Bay railroad filmed from an express train from the London and North Western Railway; Stations,...

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

Brooklyn Jubilee Peace Parade

The Humpty Dumpty Circus is the first animated short film created in stop-motion technique. It features a circus with acrobats and animals in motion.

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...

A hypnotist tricks his patients.

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...

The festive start and disastrous aftermath of the launch of the H.M.S. Albion.

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

Panorama film shot floating down the Seine.

Scene of the last supper.

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...

A depiction in the hanging of Edward Heinson, an assumed criminal assault convict in Jacksonville, Florida.

American Indians dancing.

One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and...

A hypnotism scene from the Lumière Brothers.

A lost film. Georges Méliès also directed a film entitled Faust aux enfers in 1903 that is frequently confused with this one, but it...

A fight breaks out over a poster.

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...