1899 Movies

Two grotesque minstrels are seen playing beneath a fair lady's window. She appears, and encourages one of them. The disappointed minstrel thereupon kicks the favored suitor with such force that it lifts him up to the second story window, and into the arms of t...

Builders fight on the scaffold of Paul's new studio until one falls and is injured.

"Positively the most realistic and exciting fire run ever offered to exhibitors. It shows the entire horseless fire department of Boston, accompanied by the old style apparatus which is run by horses running at terrific pace down Batterymarch Street, Boston, o...

Procession of suspiciously neat troops. This film has long been recorded in the NFTVA records as being of the Boer War, however it is probably film of the "Savage South Africa" touring theatrical troupe which visited Britain in 1899, recreating spectacular sce...

A postman sits in a garden chair and is served with food by a maid. He kisses her. The amorous couple are then squirted with water from a garden syringe by two lads who have been watching in the background. The postman gives chase but trips over the water buck...

Showing the chief and his fire wagon, chemical engine, water tower, and several three-horse engines at full speed on their way to the fire, Buffalo, New York.

A crowd passes by the camera.

Soldiers play cards and jeer as shells burst around them.

Taken during the land parade in honor of Admiral Dewey, just before the turn into 72nd street, with Grant's Tomb and decorated residences in the background.

A view of the arch from Fifth Avenue, the day after the great Dewey parade, showing the crowd of sight-seers, traffic, etc.

Military parade in Germany.

"This scene shows a crowd of newsboys running to meet the 'World' newspaper delivery wagon, and falling back to the point of distribution. There is a mad scramble for papers, and fight between two of the gamins."

Boers kill a dozing sentry, attack the camp and rob dead soldiers.

[DUPLICATE of 'After... Circus Carré'.] While he was trying, Dickson made the same sort of movie that others had before him. This is an imitation of a Lumiere picture of people leaving a show of their pictures.

It looks like peasants dancing in their holiday finery, the women wearing long skirts, the men britches and flowered hats. They set into pairs and walk in a circle, while the fiddler plays.

Troyes captured by the Lumiere Brothers

A view from the rear of a ship; A hypnotic study of the wake of a ship at sea.