Most Viewed Year 1898

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

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...

The Humpty Dumpty Circus is the first animated short film created in stop-motion technique. It features a circus with acrobats and animals in motion.

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...

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...

Santa arrives at a house on Christmas Eve to deliver his presents for the children.

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

He sits asleep at a bare table; old witch enters, raps three times, then disappears; cavalier sees table spread for a sumptuous repast....

Backstage, between two curtained doors on either side, Fregoli is seated in the center, dressed in a tight-fitting suit and assisted by two helpers....

The first scene in the 1898 Passion Play

A parade in the Vatican.

Part 10 of Alexandre Promio's Passion Play, in which Jesus is nailed to the Cross.

Pelicans being released for feeding into their enclosure at London Zoological Gardens.

Footage of the Chicago fire department in the 1890s.

Pedestrian and rickshaws traffic on Shijo Kobashi bridge, in Kyoto.