The best movies 1898 Pagina 7

Patriotic celebration in Lausanne marking the centenary of the independence of the Canton of Vaud.

The first scene in the 1898 Passion Play

Soldiers setting up camp.

This boat was the first one to leave for the South with troops. On board is a battalion of the 5th U.S. Infantry.

A woman slips into her bed with the help of her servant. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook...

First part of a series documenting the Basel carnival.

Views of the burial in Key West of victims of the USS Maine.

A group of young women and children enjoy a rowdy picnic in the countryside.

Short reportage

A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.

A hypnotist tricks his patients. There is no credited director for this film, although three different persons get attributed, Gaston Breteau, Alice...

A group of escaped reconcentrados, saved from the fate of starvation imposed by the Butcher, Weyler.

The end of the Longchamp parade and departure of the President, filmed by the Lumière brothers.

When Battery B of the 4th U.S. Artillery came to Tampa, Fla., it meant business, and the picture shows it. One by one the big artillery-men pass by...

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air. There is no credited director for this film, although three different persons get attributed,...

Vitagraph’s Battle of Santiago Bay (1898) blended real Spanish–American War footage with tabletop trickery. Albert E. Smith’s...

Dotting the horizon on the right of the picture is the great fleet of transports, while scattered all along the beach and piled high to the left are...

Bullfighting short from the Lumieres

Taken in Havana Harbor from a moving launch, and shows the wreck of the 'Maine' surrounded by wrecking boats and other vessels...

Taken in Havana Harbor from a moving launch, and shows the wreck of the 'Maine' surrounded by wrecking boats and other vessels...

A very short Edison actuality showing a circle dance by Pueblo Indians: some in feathered headdresses, others without, moving around a drummer, each...