1890s Movies

  • 1896
    Dignitaries Coming Down Gangplank

    Dignitaries Coming Down Gangplank

    Dignitaries Coming Down Gangplank

    41896HD

    Actuality film. Late 19th century General Officer ranks and higher cross to a ship over a gangplank. As VIPs they meet some people which we don't...

    Dignitaries Coming Down Gangplank
  • 1948
    Ruusu ja kulkuri

    Ruusu ja kulkuri

    Ruusu ja kulkuri

    01948HD

    The story of Finnish singer Abraham 'Aappo' Ojanperä, who was born in the late 1850s. On his journey from a crier boy from Liminga to an...

    Ruusu ja kulkuri
  • 1934
    David Harum

    David Harum

    David Harum

    71934HD

    Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank...

    David Harum
  • 1951
    Kesäillan valssi

    Kesäillan valssi

    Kesäillan valssi

    01951HD

    A story built around the music of Oskar Merikanto, tells the love story of the poor musician Lauri Alanko and the daughter of the rich Grahn family...

    Kesäillan valssi
  • 1970
    Stockton Races

    Stockton Races

    Stockton Races

    51970HD

    Made in 1896 during the flat racing season (March-October) at Stockton Racecourse, a former horse racing venue in Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire,...

    Stockton Races
  • 1896
    Street Scene in unidentified European city

    Street Scene in unidentified European city

    Street Scene in unidentified European city

    51896HD

    An actuality film of traffic and pedestrian movement at the end of a bridge. In the distance on the other side of the bridge, the tops of some large...

    Street Scene in unidentified European city
  • 1895
    Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist, Sketching Kaiser Wilhelm II

    Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist, Sketching Kaiser Wilhelm II

    Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist, Sketching Kaiser Wilhelm II

    41895HD

    A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem), a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing...

    Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist, Sketching Kaiser Wilhelm II
  • 1899
    Gordon Highlanders Leaving for the Boer War

    Gordon Highlanders Leaving for the Boer War

    Gordon Highlanders Leaving for the Boer War

    01899HD

    A parade of Gordon Highlanders in dress uniform march through the centre of Aberdeen on their way to the Boer War. Small children run around in...

    Gordon Highlanders Leaving for the Boer War