Troop Ships for the Philippines (1898)
This film runs for a couple minutes and is actually a tad bit different than most of the pictures from this era. Usually they'd run for a minute and just capture some sort of footage. The footage here is a ship full of troops that are heading to the Philippines (just as the title suggests). What makes this one different is that it uses an edit to capture a second bit of footage so this is obviously a little different than your typical film from 1898 that just showed one thing. There's nothing ground-breaking here but it's an interesting film.
The Library of Congress is a great resource to view these older movies.