The best movies 1899 Pagina 2

A miser dies of shock when the ghost of a poor woman appears.

British officers (Royal Engineers) supervising repair work on a bridge at Frere, spanning the Blaauw Krantz River, South Africa, during the Boer War.

A snippet of the Paris Grand Prix from June 19th, 1899. Elegant people in horses and buggies zoom around a bend, surrounded by spectators on either...

A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the...

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

Vietnamese children collect coins that are thrown them by two aristocratic ladies.

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

Sovereigns and their suite passing in front of the monument to Victor Emmanuel II in Sassari.

[DUPLICATE of the other 'Panoramic View of Frere Camp']

In April the bloemencorso (flower parade) takes place in Haarlem in the Netherlands. This shot shows groups of carriages, festooned with flowers...

"A magnificent picture of the launching of the 'Oceanic,' which up to that time was the largest vessel ever floated. The view is taken from a pier...

A group of riders demonstrate equestrian vaulting, or voltige, on the outskirts of Prague.

Leopoldo Fregoli as a magician.

Sailors practice rescuing someone who's fallen overboard.

Near the fountain on Amsterdam’s Frederiksplein, various people kneel down in venerating poses. The film was shot from the Paleis voor...

A short clip of Wilhelmina and her mother Emma in a horse-drawn carriage, receiving flowers from the crowd.

"An interesting picture of the great inter-collegiate eight-oared boat race of 1899. The picture is taken from the judge's boat, and shows the start...

Phantom train ride along the French Riviera in Monte Carlo, Monaco

In September of 1899, the French cameraman Emile Lauste visited the Netherlands for the second time that year. [...] One of the subjects that Lauste...