Abide With Me (1914)
Version from Olive Kline and Elsie Baker of one of the most popular hymn’s of all time….more
19th Century
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
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
