22 September 1898 Comedy 1 mins
Georges Hatot and Gaston Bretaeau with Henri Vallouy, a Gaumont employee, acting as cinematographer. Breteau himself seems to have taken the main role in most of the films and here plays the woman in drag who is terrorized by the X-ray camera at a customs checkpoint while trying to smuggle contraband through.
Watch the official L'utilité des rayons x 1898 trailer in HD below.
Sorry, we can't find the movie trailer you're looking for.
Either a trailer for this movie has not been released yet, or it was removed following a request from the copyright holder.
Gaston Bretaeau as Man
Henri Vallouy Cinematography
France 22 September 1898
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1898:
06 March 1898
Workmen fix a walkway with bitumen.
01 January 1898
The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal.
30 September 1898
In this movie, dancer Ella Lola performs a Turkish variation of a "Danse Du Ventre", the oriental belly dance.
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.
02 January 1898
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 Saint Suttle and Gertie Brown and their stage act.
20 February 1898
Two fighters, in traditional costume, taking part to the national kendo tournament.
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
29 October 1898
A hypnotism scene from the Lumière Brothers.
01 January 1898
Showing Pygmalion at work in his studio on the statue of Galatea, who, on being completed, comes to life.
20 October 1898
A short documentary capturing the officers and crew of the USS Brooklyn during a naval parade in Brooklyn, New York, on October 1, 1898, following the Spanish-American War.
Have you watched L'utilité des rayons x yet? What did you think about it?