George Dewey was an admiral in the U.S. Navy who is best remembered for his victory at Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War, which he won without the death of a single person in the battle.

Firemen Rescuing Men and Women Trailer (1899)

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.

Moulin à homme pour l'arrosage des rizières Trailer (1899)

14 July 1899

A man demonstrates a human-powered water wheel that irrigates a rice field.

Fougere Trailer (1899)

20 November 1899

The famous Parisian chanteuse in the rag-time cakewalk 'Hello, Ma Baby,' with which she made such a sensation at the New York Theatre.

Danse japonaise, III : Gueichas en Jinrikcha Trailer (1899)

02 March 1899

Women getting onto a rickshaw.

La poupée: Le curé et les mannequins Trailer (1899)

01 January 1899

A clergyman is startled by a group of automatons.

The Dreyfus Affair Trailer (1899)

04 November 1899

The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer was falsely convicted of treason, and it was alleged that he was framed due to anti-semitism.

Panorama of Calcutta Trailer (1899)

01 January 1899

One of the earliest films to be shot in India apparently shows the Calcutta ghats - or does it?

New Brooklyn to New York via Brooklyn Bridge, No. 2 Trailer (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.

The Kiss in the Tunnel Trailer (1899)

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.

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