Most Viewed Year 1899 - 15

Film by W.K.L. Dickson; Rounding a bend in the track, we behold Windsor Castle.

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

An excellent picture of this popular excursion boat, taken on the second day of the International Cup Race Oct. 5, 1899. The racing yacht 'Columbia'...

Well-known horse-women and their mounts riding before the judge's stand at the Open Air Horse Show, Manhattan Field, N.Y. City.

Filmed from the front of a steam launch in a late Victorian summer, this film offers a glimpse of our 19th century ancestors enjoying their leisure...

Herbert Campbell is filmed here in the Biograph studio, which was situated at that time on the Thames Embankment. Campbell is dressed as 'Little...

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...

An exhibition of water throwing by the Ocean Company of Green, N.Y., using an old-fashioned hand power engine.

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."

Footage from the Boer War.

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...

The dispersal of the Companies following the review of the 1st and 2nd Life Guards by Queen Victoria at Spital Barracks. The Companies, drawn up in...

A view from the rear of a ship; A hypnotic study of the wake of a ship at sea.

A tramp dreams he is welcomed in a high-society parlor for tea, only to wake up and be disappointed.

Builders fight on the scaffold of Paul's new studio until one falls and is injured.