1896 Movies

A train arrives at Perrache station. We see the view from aboard the train.

A boat returns to port, where passengers are helped ashore.

Sheep pass through a gate and enter a courtyard; a man counts them in passing.

Félicien Trewey performs a trick by writing backwards the words "Ladies and gentlemen, my grateful thanks" on a board.

This lost film presumably features a train arriving at Vincennes station, eastern Paris. (Until 2020, was confused with Arrival at Joinville flipbook....

“Mammy is washing her little pickaninny. She thrusts him, kicking and struggling, into a tub full of foaming suds.” (Edison film catalog)

At the start line of the Lyon-Geneva bicycle race.

Soldiers dancing.

Walking four abreast, in groups of six rows, 144 of Chicago's finest parade past a stationary camera. Each of the six groups that pass is escorted by...

Friends and relatives playing a game of boules, arguing about who's team is winning.

A mother takes her children for a walk, lifts her baby girl out of the buggy and gently sets her down to the ground. She then moves a few steps away a...

The floods of the Saône river during the first week of November, 1896.

The dancer Fatima, well-known for her dancing shows at the World's Exhibition in 1893, performs for the camera. She opens her act by twirling around a...

Two babies are shown seated next to each other, in high chairs, apparently enjoying themselves. Suddenly one snatches a toy from the other and they in...