W.F. Hooley reads Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (1898)
150 years ago today, on November 19th 1863, President Lincoln delivered his famous speech at the dedication of the Gettysburg Civil War Cemetery, a cemetery set up …more
19th Century
Rip Van Winkle (1896)
The first film adaptation of Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle”, a short story about a man who awakes after a 20 year long sleep to a huge white beard on hi…more
The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895)
This re-enactment — just 18 seconds long — of the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots, is likely to have been the very first film to use trained actors, and the v…more