The best movies 1899 Pagina 2

A group of riders demonstrate equestrian vaulting, or voltige, on the outskirts of Prague.

Panorama of the battleships "Sardegna" and "Sicilia" at the naval review of Cagliari.

Melies short.

Actuality film of miners entering a mine.

Sailors clamber up the rigging. Filmed at Portsmouth.

Leopoldo Fregoli as a magician.

A man demonstrates a human-powered water wheel that irrigates a rice field.

A knight performs several magic tricks with a disembodied head materialized from a chalkboard drawing.

Women getting onto a rickshaw.

A snippet of the Paris Grand Prix from June 19th, 1899. Elegant people in horses and buggies zoom around a bend, surrounded by spectators on either...

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

Close shot of 4.7" naval gun pointing to the left with group of British naval ratings standing around it. The gun fires and the men run up to reload,...

Queen Victoria seated in her carriage with her back to the camera (on the left hand side of the frame, barely visible), and surrounded by invited...

View of the audience, following the launch of a ship.

Showing the tapping of the furnace, and the running of the molten metal into the moulds at Elswick yard.

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

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