01 January 1898 Factual 3 mins
This silent film captures scenes of the Blackpool Tower and the tramway, showcasing the town's trams and coastline. It's a valuable piece of early cinema, offering a glimpse into Blackpool's Victorian-era landscape and transportation system.
Watch the official First Film of Blackpool 1898 trailer in HD below.
Blackpool Promenade Trailer
United Kingdom 01 January 1898
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1898:
01 February 1898
Clog dancing contest winner dances on dinner plate.
20 March 1898
A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.
20 March 1898
The film opens showing the native daughters mounted on horses.
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.
01 January 1898
Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by curiously disproportionate fish.
01 January 1898
Satan conjures a vision of a girl, for whom an old man signs a pact and is made young. This is a losh
05 August 1898
This Victorian duel between knife-wielding women was taken from an existing stage production, thought to be the Drury Lane theatre melodrama 'Women and Wine'.
01 December 1898
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 him with a broom as they wait for help to arrive.
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