Most Viewed Year 1899 - 17

This is a ladies cycling display in the summer of 1899 in London, England. It is a display/show by the Catford Cycling Club.

Troyes captured by the Lumiere Brothers

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

A dancing girl.

This rapid panorama isn't as smooth as the average 'Phantom Ride' - an early example of 'shaky-cam' war photography? Filmmaker WKL Dickson asked that...

A couple are making love beneath the window of a cranky old gentleman. There is a handsome window garden above them filled with plants and flowers....

Soldiers play cards and jeer as shells burst around them.

"Taken from moving cable car leaving Brooklyn train yard, crossing entire span and arriving at New York terminus in City Hall station."

A crowd passes by the camera.

Out at sea with boats passing by.

"A novel form of aquatic sports at Bath Beach. This has a very humorous effect in reversed motion."

Procession of suspiciously neat troops. This film has long been recorded in the NFTVA records as being of the Boer War, however it is probably film...

Short film of the audience leaving the afternoon show at Circus Carré in Amsterdam. In the early years of film, shots of visitors after a...

"An exhibition of Prof. Leonidas's trained animals. A cat is stretched across two chairs, and a number of dogs of different breeds jump over her."

Showing the employees leaving the factory at noon.