Most Viewed Year 1899 - 2

A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

The Wrestlers (1899), directed by Harishchandra Sakharam Bhatavdekar (also known as Save Dada), is widely recognized as the first film shot by an...

This picture shows the Columbia crossing the line, leading the Shamrock by about 1/2 mile. The Shamrock is plainly seen in the distance and she later...

Reenactment of action in the Spanish-American War.

A reenactment of a scene inside Devil's Island prison.

The king of Cambodia visits a palace.

Shielded by a thick bit of timber at a turn of the road stands a company of mounted men, awaiting the order to advance...

The scene opens with a salesman displaying corsets to the buyer of a country store. He calls in a female model and tries a corset on her. While the...

Women getting onto a rickshaw.

The Astor Battery became famous after the Spanish-American war and these young men are on display in this Edison short, which was shot on Saturday,...

A man demonstrates a human-powered water wheel that irrigates a rice field.

You see a shot of three horse-drawn wagons on a dirt road with some mountains in the far background...

The famous Parisian chanteuse in the rag-time cakewalk 'Hello, Ma Baby,' with which she made such a sensation at the New York Theatre.

Sailors practice rescuing someone who's fallen overboard.

A knight performs several magic tricks with a disembodied head materialized from a chalkboard drawing.

A section of the port Haliquen (Quiberon) Bretagne, at night where Dreyfus was landed by French marines, and officers after his transport from...

Reproduction of the famous painting by Garnier.

Up the road comes a detachment of infantry, firing, advancing, kneeling and firing, again and again...

American Mutoscope & Biograph

"In this picture is shown a group of ten of the most magnificent St. Bernard dogs in the world; all of them being many times prize winners. The dogs...