The best movies 1898 Pagina 3

First pageant celebrating the opening of the Swiss National Museum.

A British Mutoscope & Biograph production.

The pope taking a twilight walk.

Scene filmed in the town of St. Gallen.

Advertising in the center of St. Gallen.

Reenactment of Jesus Christ with his cross.

Fourth part of a series documenting the Basel carnival.

A hypnotist tricks his patients. There is no credited director for this film, although three different persons get attributed, Gaston Breteau, Alice...

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

View from a train in the Montreux region.

A group of monks in procession carrying a large crucifix in Vatican City, 1898.

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

Probably the first video of a Pope: Leo XIII sits in his chair with guards and attendants, then blesses the viewers.

There is a burglar on the rooftop of a Manhattan office building, and he is trying to break in. Two women spot him, and one of them begins beating...

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

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

Film adaptation of the famous French folktale by Georges Hatot.

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

A showcase of trapeze artist Alciede Capitaine, billed as “The Perfect Woman,” whose daring feats on the flying bar combined grace with...

"The Worthing Station is some distance from the shore, and whenever there is a wreck the life-boat is dragged to the scene on a huge truck drawn by...