The S.S. Australia departs from San Francisco Bay, carrying American soldiers to the Philippines.

A review of engineers at the Longchamp parade, filmed by the Lumière brothers.

A British Mutoscope & Biograph Company production

"This picture was taken from the front of a rapidly moving launch through one of the most beautiful stretches of the Grand Canal, showing many...

The Reading's [Pennsylvania] pitcher has just let a Newark [New Jersey] batsman walk to first. Our camera is stationed about twenty feet from the...

The Switchback Railway was the forerunner of the roller coaster. Passengers sit in a small car which trundles up a swooping railway track then...

Another entry in Edison's "Southern Pacific Company Series", which pretty much had cameramen hanging around the train line just shooting anything...

The Last Supper, part 6 of Alexandre Promio's Passion Play.

Four women dressed in the costume of the era perform a can-can. They were photographed from a single camera position.

An active outdoor film with cattle being driven from an outdoor corral by mounted cowboys.

Georges Hatot and Gaston Bretaeau with Henri Vallouy, a Gaumont employee, acting as cinematographer. Breteau himself seems to have taken the main...

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

The end of the Longchamp parade and departure of the President, filmed by the Lumière brothers.

Two fighters, in traditional costume, taking part to the national kendo tournament.

Félicien Trewey mimes Pierrot being harassed in his sleep by a fly.

Workmen fix a walkway with bitumen.

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

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

Despite the title, the most one can glean from this very short short is a bunch of guys having fun in a harbor.

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...

A man surprises a woman. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu...

Eight mounted cowboys pursue an escaped steer, riding at furious speed. Fine exhibition of lasso throwing. Mexican International.

Reenactment of Jesus Christ with his cross.

The boulevard in front of the Kurhaus, with pedestrians and a terrace.

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

"A double-decked trolley car, crowded with passengers, approaches and passes the camera. Carriages, pedestrians and bicyclists add to the action of...

A canine serpentine dance.

J. Stuart Blackton filming the Battle of Santiago Bay in 1898

A wide plain, dotted with tents, gleaming in white in the bright sunshine. Soldiers moving about everywhere...

The steamer 'Mascotte' has reached her dock at Port Tampa, and the 2nd Battalion of Colored Infantry is going ashore.

The stars-and-stripes and the flag of Cuba Libre flutter in the breeze, one after the other. Very dramatic. Appeals to the popular sentiment....

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

"A great pack train approaches rapidly, following the gray bell-mule. Cowboys dash to and fro, keeping them bunched. Clouds of dust arise as they...

A soldier and a serving-girl are courting on a bench. A fat old lady sits on the bench, interrupting them.

Without a doubt this is the finest railroad moving picture ever made, and for variety and beauty of scenery it can hardly be surpassed the world...