08 December 1899 Factual 1 mins
A train, with locomotives and armoured cars at each end, passes over a temporary bridge erected over the Modder river; Seaforth Highlanders are riding in coal trucks and the train moves towards the camera.
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Troop Train Conveying the Seaforth Highlanders Across the Modder River Trailer
Troops Passing Over the Modder by Train Trailer
United Kingdom 08 December 1899
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1899:
26 May 1899
Traffic and crowd in front of the stalls of a street market.
20 March 1899
"Down goes the Spanish flag, and up floats the Stars and Stripes. Down falls the symbol of tyranny and oppression that has ruled in the new world for four hundred years, and up goes the Banner of Freedom.
02 January 1899
A two-wheeled convoy of Victorian gentlewomen in a charming early film enigma.
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.
29 October 1899
Within a printing (printing a test).
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 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
A clergyman is startled by a group of automatons.
01 January 1899
One of the earliest films to be shot in India apparently shows the Calcutta ghats - or does it?
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