22 November 1899 Factual 1 mins
The Passing of the Armoured Train - A large group of British soldiers are seen digging entrenchment's under the supervision of officers. A brief second shot shows an armoured train going past. The first film of British troops at the front taken during the war.
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United Kingdom 22 November 1899
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1899:
01 November 1899
An embarkation reportage film from the Boer War, a popular film subject at this time. Soldiers with bicycles appear in this parade.
01 January 1899
Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe. There is no known credited director for this film, although the attribution usually goes for Alice Guy.
13 December 1899
Leopoldo Fregoli plays the guitar to set-up a gag.
20 May 1899
This picture shows the Columbia crossing the line, leading the Shamrock by about 1/2 mile. The Shamrock is plainly seen in the distance and she later comes up and crosses the line in the same picture.
11 April 1899
Panorama of the battleship "Brennus" flagship of the French fleet
26 May 1899
Traffic and crowd in front of the stalls of a street market.
01 January 1899
A clergyman is startled by a group of automatons.
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.
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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