Oskar Messter

Eine Hochbahnfahrt durch Berlin

Oskar Messter

Actuality scenes of Berlin circa 1910.

Akt-Skulpturen. Studienfilm für bildende Künstler

Oskar Messter

A nude couple pose in an art studio on a square rug, while the camera does a circular traveling around them; the woman has her right knee on the floor and her right arm raised in front of her face, holding the man's thighs with her right, while the man is bent forward, as if looking in the distance.

Kaiser Wilhelm II. beim Besuche der Vulkan-Werft in Stettin am 4. Mai 1897

Oskar Messter

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany

This film shot by Oskar Messter shows a visit by Wilhelm II the AG Vulcan in Szczecin, one of the then leading shipyards in Germany. On display are the Emperor and some military and civil dignitaries, who walk on the landing stage of the factory site on the occasion of the launch of the transatlantic speed steamer "Kaiser Wilhelm the Great" a group of spectators. In his memoirs Messter has described the motion picture as "the first good close-up of the Emperor."

Bobby bei den Frauenrechtlerinnen

Oskar Messter

A man dresses up as a woman in order to take part in the suffragette movement.