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...
The Four Troublesome Heads
From the upper windows of a ruined mill Cubans are firing at a scouting party of Spaniards, who return the volley. Fine smoke effects.
Cuban Ambush
The film opens showing the native daughters mounted on horses.
Native Daughters
Branding calves in 1898.
Calf Branding
Leopoldo Fregoli gets free tasty samples.
Pere cotte
Film shot by W.K.L. Dickson at Maidenhead Junction, 1898.
Maidenhead Junction
A man changes clothes immediately.
Fregoli trasformista
During Queen Vilhelminas coronation.
The Royal Procession from the Church after the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
Scene of the last supper.
La cène
Passage of a Shintoist procession, whose members carry banners and lanterns, somewhere in Kyoto.
Procession shintoïste
Queen Vilhelminas coronation.
The Royal Procession to the Church before the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
Queen Wilhelmina arrives to the palace during her coronation.
Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amsterdam, Sept 6th (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
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...
Ella Lola, a la Trilby
Skating scene.
The Skaters
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...
Little Mischief
Régates (aller)
Queen Vilhelmina greeting the crowds after the coronation.
The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Palace Balcony Responding to the Call of the Populace (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
Another entry in Edison's "Southern Pacific Company Series", which pretty much had cameramen hanging around the train line just shooting anything...
Freight Train
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...
The Magician
Parade of guards during Queen Wilhelminas coronation.
Review of the Royal Netherland Guards in the Costumes of the Middle Ages (Coronation of Wilhelmina Guard of Honor)
Annual pageant commemorating the anniversary of the Battle of Morat, the victory in 1476 of the Swiss Confederates over the Duke of Burgundy. The...
Défilé dans la ville de Morat
Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Pope Leo XIII Carried through the Vatican Loggia on His Way to the Sistine Chapel
Llegada de un tren a la estación de ferrocarril del Norte de Barcelona
Directed by pioneering Catalan filmmaker Fructuós Gelabert, this short documentary captures the royal visit of Queen Regent María...
Visit of Doña Cristina and Don Alfonso XIII to Barcelona
Don Juan Tenorio is a 1898 Mexican silent drama film directed by Salvador Toscano who was Mexico’s first filmmaker and is also the first film...
Don Juan Tenorio
Arguably the first animation film in Spain, where two ships collide.
Clash of Two Transatlantic Ships
Encierro de toros
A record of a bicycle race held at the Arroyo Seco velodrome, which was located in the Quinta de Iglesias street (modern day Agraciada) by Entre...
Bicycle Race at the Arroyo Seco Cycle Track
Workers leave the factory where they work once the day is over.
Matadero and Exit of Workers
Filming of a storm in Riazor Beach, Galicia (Spain).
Storm at Riazor
Filming of the arrival of the Spanish soldiers from the Cuban War.
Disembarkation of the Wounded from Cuba in our Harbour
Workers unload the coal they collected as part of their routine.
Unloading of Coal
