Most Viewed Year 1898 - 17

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...

“This is a replica of the famous duel with rapiers between Emile Zola, the novelist, and Henri Rochefort, the statesman. The duel takes place...

An amusing picture showing a quarrel between an elderly husband and his young wife, and a joyful reconciliation.

Don Juan Tenorio is a 1898 Mexican silent drama film directed by Salvador Toscano who was Mexico’s first filmmaker and is also the first film...

Beautiful Spanish Dance by Carolina Otero.

This is a wonderfully impressive picture, taken on the morning after the battle in which the Spanish navy was destroyed...

"A splendid picture of the pride of the Spanish navy, taken on the occasion of her visit to New York Harbor, when her captain hinted at his ability...

A man of at least five faces.

A hypnotism scene from the Lumière Brothers.

A canine serpentine dance.

A charge full of cowboy enthusiasm by troop 'I,' the famous regiment, at Tampa, before its departure for the front.

A ‘phantom ride’ taken from the front of a train passing through the Devon town of Barnstaple.

The film documents the launch of HMS Albion at Blackwall on the 21st of June, 1898—an event that was witnessed by 30,000 onlookers, 37 of whom...

A religious procession during the Holy Week in Seville, Spain.

Anonymously directed is Karina (1902), less than half a minute of a vaudeville can-can dancer. She's shown in voluminous skirt hanging to the floor,...

First comes the famous Marine Band of the 'Brooklyn,' with the mascot goat beside the bass drum. The 300 marines follow in rapid marching order, a...

"Here is a film, one of the finest of its kind, portraying a number of colored professionals in their favorite pastime, a cake walk. This is a winner...

Seagulls flock around a moving ferryboat in San Francisco Bay in this 2-shot short film.

"Here was built the peerless battleship 'Oregon.' The scene is taken at lunch hour, and shows a great throng of employees leaving the shop."

From one angle, a line of soldiers are shown walking up the gangplank.