Most Viewed Year 1898 - 4

Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen. This version is shot with a wider view and shows more of the vaudeville stylings of...

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

Queen Vilhelmina greeting the crowds after the coronation.

A remarkable picture in many ways. It shows a game between two expert English teams from the go-off to the making of a goal. The photographic effects...

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

During Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

A depiction in the hanging of Edward Heinson, an assumed criminal assault convict in Jacksonville, Florida.

Carriages carrying Queen Wilhelmina arrive in Amsterdam

Sailors disembarking on the beach in Scheveningen, Netherlands. Shot on 68 mm Mutoscope-Biograph.

This picture was taken on the line of the Mt. Tamalpais Scene R.R., and whereas the previous views were taken ascending, this is a descending view,...

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

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...

A lost film. Georges Méliès also directed a film entitled Faust aux enfers in 1903 that is frequently confused with this one, but it...

The pope resting.

Black hooded pallbearers carry a coffin in a funeral procession in front of onlookers.