The best movies 1899

A fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella's rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets...

Based on Shakespeare's play, Act V, Scene vii: King John is in torment, and his supporters fear that his end is near. As he writhes in agony, he is...

Also known as The Operation of Dr. Alejandro Posadas. Filmed with early orthochromatic film in the Hospital de Clínicas de la Ciudad in Buenos...

Sailors clamber up the rigging. Filmed at Portsmouth.

An excellent view of 'The Finest,' on their annual parade and inspection, June 1, 1899. The head of the column is just turning into 14th street from...

A little girl sits at a table, holding a container of what appears to be some sort of food. Suddenly there's a flash of movement: a tortoiseshell...

This film captures the departure of the 2nd Special Service Battalion, Canadian Infantry, from Quebec for the war in South Africa. Soldiers in...

Traffic and crowd in front of the stalls of a street market.

A priest is officiating at a convent, when suddenly he is transformed into the devil, who frightens away the nuns and turns the place into...

View of the German and Italian royal processions, at the iron mines of Monteponi.

Women getting onto a rickshaw.

A lost film. A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it. This film is presumably lost.

Within a printing (printing a test).

Melies short.

Prinsengracht is one of the main canals of Amsterdam. While on board of a ship, we'll get to see the city buildings, its bridges, and every day...

Asian remake of Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory, apparently.

Showing the tapping of the furnace, and the running of the molten metal into the moulds at Elswick yard.

Showing the tapping of the furnace, and the running of the molten metal into the moulds at Elswick yard.

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

Also known as The Operation of Dr. Alejandro Posadas. Filmed with early orthochromatic film in the Hospital de Clínicas de la Ciudad in Buenos...

Short documentary directed by Ángel García Cardona. It is considered the first picture to be filmed in Valencia.