Most Viewed Year 1898 - 16

Shows steam fire engine in action. Men scale ladders and play streams of water on a burning building. Very realistic.

Taken on 'Lucky' Baldwin's ranch, Santa Anita, Cal. Shows an engine and five cars approaching from a distance.

Boys blow peas at the cobbler, who throws a boot and hits a woman.

Reporters rush to telegraph the latest war news.

The large war vessel slides slowly down the ways, stern first. Rowboats in the foreground rock violently in the swell. One boat upsets.

This twenty-five second film is from Edison's "Southern Pacific Company" series. What we see is a Japanese ship as it is floating into a harbor in...

Footage by Gaumont of the famous road in France. (Title given — incorrect in French — is the one used on the BFI Mediatheque, where...

Advertising in the center of St. Gallen.

Scene filmed in the town of St. Gallen.

View from a funicular train in the Montreux region.

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

Shows the entire flock running around the corral with great strides and outstretched wings.

Short reportage

On the Letná Field in Prague a white horse called Vasil is performing exercises in a circle, being on longe. A man is performing so-called...

Foaming sea breaks over rocks and a sea wall in what is believed to be Ilfracombe, on the North Devon coast. The study of waves breaking was a...

Director: William Heise Production Company: Edison Manufacturing Company Country: USA

generally credited as the first known film by a Canadian filmmaker

Santa delivers toys to some children, not all of which have been nice. A fairy helps with handing out the presents.