سال 1899 - 2

A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

Circus bears showing their tricks.

Local workers climb the slope pushing carts.

A procession of young male athletes.

Vietnamese children collect coins that are thrown them by two aristocratic ladies.

Panorama of the battleship "Brennus" flagship of the French fleet

An actuality and reportage film. This film captures Lord Frederick Roberts (British Army rank Field Marshal) departing England for South Africa on 23rd December 1899, where he commanded British forces for a year in the Second Boer War. The ship in this film is the RMS Dunottar Castle. Going with Roberts is his chief of staff, Lord Kitchener, whose future role as Secretary Of State for War during World War One awaits him. This film was produced and distributed by the Warwick Trading Company, a London based company at its peak at this time, involved in the majority of British films.The Warwick Trading Company specialised in travel, reportage and actuality films and had substantial catalogues. Charles Urban had taken over as managing director in 1897 and was in that role when this film was produced. According to the BFI programme entry, the company had a large amount of resources already in South Africa. This meant they could capture historic moments as part of its Boer War coverage.

A century-old film depicting opium smokers in French Indochina (Vietnam).

Within a printing (printing a test).

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

The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer was falsely convicted of treason, and it was alleged that he was framed due to anti-semitism.

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

George Dewey was an admiral in the U.S. Navy who is best remembered for his victory at Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War, which he won without the death of a single person in the battle. Needless to say since he was a big hero in this country Edison decided to film him at various stages and release them to make some money.

A soldier is promoted for bravery, marries a Red Cross girl, and goes home to his parents.

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

Probably part of the "Alaska and Yellowstone National Park Series" in the "Northern Pacific Railway Series"

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

A miser dies of shock when the ghost of a poor woman appears.

Arrival of Commander Marchand at Military Circle in Paris.

A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the pot. After the devil works the fire with bellows, an angelic woman emerges from the pot. The devil and the pot vanish as the woman performs a dance, waving about her diaphanous sleeves until she conjures forth another fire, then she rises amongst the smoke into the air.