Most Viewed Year 1898 - 21

Annual pageant commemorating the anniversary of the Battle of Morat, the victory in 1476 of the Swiss Confederates over the Duke of Burgundy. The...

Fourth part of a series documenting the Basel carnival.

Fifth part of a series documenting the Basel carnival.

Third part of a series of vues of the Basel Carnival.

Playful ramblers carrying Sunlight placards in a cow pasture in the Jura (Canton of Vaud). The respectable gentleman is none other than William...

In this picture the pretty bathing girls are riding their wheels along the hard sand of the beach. One girl who is a novice is learning to ride, and...

Workers unload the coal they collected as part of their routine.

Filming of a storm in Riazor Beach, Galicia (Spain).

Men walk through the street with their flower-decorated bicycles in this early Pathe actuality.

Some boys are seated at a table outdoors for a meal when a fight breaks out.

Foaming sea breaks over rocks and a sea wall in what is believed to be Ilfracombe, on the North Devon coast. The study of waves breaking was a...

The power of moving photography is exploited in this early film, not to dazzle audiences' eyes but to turn their stomachs. The camera is mounted on...

generally credited as the first known film by a Canadian filmmaker

Boats in Venice

Windmills along the River Zaan.

A fine picture of the launching of this splendid battleship; taken from the water. The vessel is shown sliding down the ways, plunging into the sea;...

Four Irishmen dance a jig.

A man gets into an argument with his carriage driver.