1896 Movies

The first travelling shot.

Students in Lyon.

Game of marbles between four or five boys.

A trains arrives at Perrache station and people disembark.

At the launch of a ship, of which we can only see the hull, the audience moves aside.

Two girls do one of their chores. Standing alongside a tree-lined farmhouse, two children who are about ten and four years old toss grain to a flock o...

This film documents the 1896 Melbourne Cup horse race including footage of the crowd watching the race.

Young people dive into the sea by jumping off a manmade wooden raft, while a small boat loaded with passengers passes by.

A woman and a young girl each carry containers of bird feed, and they toss occasional handfuls to the chickens and doves in the farmyard. Most of the...

Three young women dance in Drury Lane, London.

A quarrel between two women that a man attempts to separate.

Russian sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Fiodorovna, and President Felix Faure, parading down the Champs-Elysées in a carriage, followed by horseme...

Sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna and their suite slowly walk down a staircase, preceded by a company of cuirassiers.

An ostrich pulls a cart carrying young women wearing ostrich-feather hats.

The surf pounds against a breakwater on which are visible several people standing. The wall looks to be about 20 feet above sea level and extend at le...

Men working at the shipyards of La Ciotat.

A soldier stands guard at a sentry box and leaves it unprotected for a moment, a moment that two men take advantage of to put up posters where it is p...

“This view was taken upon Mr. McKinley's lawn at his home in Canton, Ohio. Mr. McKinley appears walking across the lawn in company with his Secretary,...