22 November 1899 1 mins
Procession of suspiciously neat troops. This film has long been recorded in the NFTVA records as being of the Boer War, however it is probably film of the "Savage South Africa" touring theatrical troupe which visited Britain in 1899, recreating spectacular scenes from African wars.
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United Kingdom 22 November 1899
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1899:
20 May 1899
“This is a new negative showing the entire trip from Brooklyn to New York, in which the immense towers stand out clear and distinct against the sky.
26 May 1899
Traffic and crowd in front of the stalls of a street market.
01 January 1899
A lost film. A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it.
31 December 1899
A train heads for a tunnel. In one car, a restless man smokes, and a woman is reading on the seat opposite him.
12 June 1899
Carriages travel down the Champs Elysée.
13 December 1899
As Camilla sleeps in the garden of Tollhouse Inn, Roland steals a vial of elixir from under her skirt.
30 June 1899
Shows the efficiency of modern life-saving methods and apparatus now in use by the fire departments. Shows the front of a building burning and two ladders raised against it.
02 January 1899
Shot at the Kubut-za in Tokyo and a rare record of two classical kubuki actors, Onoe Eizaburo V and Ichimura Kakuki-za VI, A surviving poster for this film is illustrated by a woodblock print of the lead actors by ukiyo-e artist Yutaka Hitoshi, a frozen moment of the incipient transition from traditional art-forms of ukiyo-e and kabuki to the new, and all-dominating medium of katsudo-shashin (cinema).
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