20 December 1898 Factual 1 mins
A bunch of naked boys jump and splash in the water right on one of the canals of Venice. There's even the tail end of one of the gondolas to make sure the audience doesn't mistake where this is taking place.
Watch the official Boys Bathing: Venice 1898 trailer in HD below.
United Kingdom 20 December 1898
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1898:
01 July 1898
Passage of a Shintoist procession, whose members carry banners and lanterns, somewhere in Kyoto.
29 October 1898
A hypnotism scene from the Lumière Brothers.
01 January 1898
In this scene is shown a magician behind an ordinary table, upon which he suddenly and mysteriously causes to appear a large box, into which he leaps.
30 September 1898
In this movie, dancer Ella Lola performs a Turkish variation of a "Danse Du Ventre", the oriental belly dance.
01 February 1898
Clog dancing contest winner dances on dinner plate.
20 March 1898
Another entry in Edison's "Southern Pacific Company Series", which pretty much had cameramen hanging around the train line just shooting anything they could.
01 January 1898
Sailors disembarking on the beach in Scheveningen, Netherlands. Shot on 68 mm Mutoscope-Biograph.
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1898 British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
