İl 1898

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 throwing it in the air, it appears on the table opposite another head, and both detached heads sing in unison. The conjurer then removes it a third time. You then see all three of his heads, which are exact duplicates, upon the table at one time, while the conjurer again stands before the audience with his head perfectly intact, singing in unison with the three heads upon the table. He closes the picture by bowing himself from the stage.

Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by curiously disproportionate fish.

Backward tracking shot of a train going from Bushey, England, near the end of its journey to Euston.

Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen.

Noted for the first use of time-lapse in a motion picture.

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

Sailors training with swords.

The famous show makes a parade.

One of the two earliest horror films ever made. This film is presumed lost.

A film directed by the pioneer of cinema in Azerbaijan, Alexandre Michon, it was filmed on August 4, 1898 in Balakhany, Baku and presented at the International Paris Exhibition. The film was shot using a 35mm film on a Lumière cinematograph. Silent movie. (Wikipedia)

Georges Hatot and Gaston Bretaeau with Henri Vallouy, a Gaumont employee, acting as cinematographer. Breteau himself seems to have taken the main role in most of the films and here plays the woman in drag who is terrorized by the X-ray camera at a customs checkpoint while trying to smuggle contraband through.

A parade in the Vatican.

St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!

A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.

Brooklyn Jubilee Peace Parade