01 January 1898 Factual 3 mins
Black-and-white silent film from the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait, featuring a small group of young Aboriginal men demonstrating a shake-a-leg dance on the beach at Murray Island.
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Australia 01 January 1898
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1898:
06 March 1898
Workmen fix a walkway with bitumen.
20 March 1898
A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.
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
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.
01 January 1898
Sailors disembarking on the beach in Scheveningen, Netherlands. Shot on 68 mm Mutoscope-Biograph.
02 January 1898
One of the two earliest horror films ever made. This film is presumed lost.
02 January 1898
Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor.
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 July 1898
Passage of a Shintoist procession, whose members carry banners and lanterns, somewhere in Kyoto.
01 January 1898
A showcase of trapeze artist Alciede Capitaine, billed as “The Perfect Woman,” whose daring feats on the flying bar combined grace with breathtaking athleticism.
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