Most Viewed Year 1898 - 21

Foaming sea breaks over rocks and a sea wall in what is believed to be Ilfracombe, on the North Devon coast. The study of waves breaking was a...

Boats in Venice

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.

NFM B15006 VI | FLM45380 | Film from the collection of EYE (Amsterdam)

Bullfighting short from the Lumieres

Turin Expo, 1st May 1898. Inauguration of the Italian National Exhibition in the presence of King Umberto I and Queen Margherita. The Parco del...

An actuality

Black and white silent film from the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait, featuring a small group of young Aboriginal men...

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

A pretty young girl, chaperoned by her elderly father, is seated on a park bench. The old man is bent over his newspaper. The young girl's lover...

A British Mutoscope & Biograph Company production

Women getting into a fight.

A staging of Jesus' passion.

"This is an arranged scene worked out very effectively. At its opening two rowdies are seen engaged in a street fight. A crowd collects, and a...

Acrobatics involving a couple of clowns and a dog trainer.

A charge full of cowboy enthusiasm by troop 'I,' the famous regiment, at Tampa, before its departure for the front.

Taken at the Dry Tortugas, and shows the most powerful fighting machine in the world today as she lies at anchor taking on coal...

Taken at Washington, in front of the Navy Department, and shows Secretary of the Navy Long and Captain Sigsbee of the ill-fated 'Maine' coming down...