"An interesting picture of the great inter-collegiate eight-oared boat race of 1899. The picture is taken from the judge's boat, and shows the start and first part of the race."
Watch the official Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race 1899 trailer in HD below.
Cambridge-Oxford Boat Race Trailer
Oxford-Cambridge Boat-Race Trailer
United Kingdom 01 April 1899
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 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.
28 November 1899
A reel of the Noh drama Momiji-gari, in which Danjuro Ichikawa played opposite Onoe Kikugoro V as an ogress who has disguised herself as the Princess Sarashina.
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.
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.
06 August 1899
View of the audience, following the launch of a ship.
01 January 1899
This is a ladies cycling display by the Catford Cycling Club in the summer of 1899 in London, England.
14 July 1899
A man demonstrates a human-powered water wheel that irrigates a rice field.
29 October 1899
Within a printing (printing a test).
30 April 1899
Vietnamese children collect coins that are thrown them by two aristocratic ladies.
30 April 1899
Asian remake of Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory, apparently.
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1899 British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.