Short actuality showing Kaiser Wilhelm II visiting Portsmouth, including views associated with Nelson’s flagship H.M.S. Victory. Produced in Britain during the late-Victorian boom in topical films, it records the Kaiser’s naval-themed stop at the Royal Navy’s principal base.
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Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany as Self
Robert W. Paul Producer
United Kingdom 01 January 1899
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1899:
19 April 1899
Sovereigns and their suite passing in front of the monument to Victor Emmanuel II in Sassari.
02 March 1899
Women getting onto a rickshaw.
01 January 1899
This is a ladies cycling display by the Catford Cycling Club in the summer of 1899 in London, England.
01 January 1899
A lost film. A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it.
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.
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.
26 May 1899
Traffic and crowd in front of the stalls of a street market.
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.
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.
20 March 1899
The Buffoons are artists in their line. They tumble in and out of trick doors, disappear and reappear in unexpected places in most unexpected ways.
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