Most Viewed Year 1898

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...

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

Come Along, Do! is an 1898 British short silent comedy film, produced and directed by Robert W. Paul. The film was of 1 minute duration, but only...

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...

Santa arrives at a house on Christmas Eve to deliver his presents for the children.

St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!

A blind man begging for change tries to outsmart a cop.

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

A young, dark-haired woman performs a dance inspired by George du Maurier's character Trilby, in an early modern dance style reminiscent of Isadora...

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

Papa is reading his newspaper and his little girl tickles his neck with a long straw. Thinking it is a fly papa "shoos" away the supposed fly with...

“A file of Spanish soldiers line up the Cubans against a blank wall and fire a volley. The flash of rifles and drifting smoke make a very...

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and...

Filmmaker WKL Dickson, one-time right hand man to Thomas Edison, the 'Wizard of Menlo Park', here captures an even greater eminence, Pope Leo XIII....

Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor.

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

A folk dance staged in the ruins of Pompeii. With the Arch of Tiberius in the near distance and Arch of Caligula in far distance. A troop of...

A hypnotist tricks his patients.

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