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. Sure to amuse the children.
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United States 20 March 1899
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Amazing comedy footage from 1899 produced by Thomas A. Edison - Yes That Edison! This rare film is a part of a Paper Print Collection from the Library of .
Vaudeville stage act of two male and one female clown-acrobats who make use of a constructed "break-away" wall of spring-hinged windows and doors. Begins ...
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1899:
12 June 1899
Carriages travel down the Champs Elysée.
27 September 1899
The Shamrock is seen after its defeat in the 1899 America's Cup, along with the Erin, which served as its tow boat across the Atlantic.
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).
01 January 1899
This is a ladies cycling display by the Catford Cycling Club in the summer of 1899 in London, England.
20 January 1899
The Astor Battery became famous after the Spanish-American war and these young men are on display in this Edison short, which was shot on Saturday, January 21, 1899.
01 January 1899
A clergyman is startled by a group of automatons.
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.
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.
13 December 1899
As Camilla sleeps in the garden of Tollhouse Inn, Roland steals a vial of elixir from under her skirt.
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.
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