The best movies 1899 Pagina 2

Sovereigns and their suite passing in front of the monument to Victor Emmanuel II in Sassari.

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.

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.

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

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,...

Sailors clamber up the rigging. Filmed at Portsmouth.

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...

Phantom train ride along the French Riviera in Monte Carlo, Monaco

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

In April the bloemencorso (flower parade) takes place in Haarlem in the Netherlands. This shot shows groups of carriages, festooned with flowers...