1898 Movies

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

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

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 curiousl...

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

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

A hypnotist tricks his patients.

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

Soldiers ambush a house.

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

Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen.

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....

A parade in the Vatican.

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

The S.S. Australia departs from San Francisco Bay, carrying American soldiers to the Philippines.

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

Scene of the last supper.

In this movie, dancer Ella Lola performs a Turkish variation of a "Danse Du Ventre", the oriental belly dance. In her dance she shakes, twists and tur...