1896 Movies

Slavic dance routine by Les Sœurs Rappo

Three athletes make their way to wicker baskets that contain a mishmash of wacky costumes. They need to dress up as quickly as they can, and make thei...

Artist draws Thomas Edison.

Working men and women leave the Lumière factory, through the main gate. Three separate versions of this film exist, this is the second remake "no hors...

A Lumière street scene of Paris showing the traffic of horse carriages.

Top-hatted pedestrians and horse-drawn traffic pass over Blackfriars Bridge in London.

A lady watering the garden with a hose, a mischievous boy stops the flow of water until she looks for the cause, when he permits the water to flow, re...

A tramp steals a housewife's pie, and is pursued by her bulldog, which latches onto his rear as he scrambles over a fence.

A black and white short from the Lumière brothers in which a crowds is filmed at the Place de l'Opèra in Paris.

A stationary camera looks across Burgundy's river Sâone toward a small military encampment. Four horsemen enter the water in the foreground, each ridi...

Women hauling coke in wheelbarrows.

A roller skater performs a series of eccentric exercises.

Mexican vaqueros (cattle herders) in Guadalajara guide their horses through water.

Short from (1897)

Félicien Trewey swirls a large white ribbon around him.

A large number of workers, mostly young women, leave by the front door of their work place at lunch time. The building has an impressive colonnaded fa...

A parade with large floats. One stops in front of the camera.

Native Mexican people grouped in front of the camera.

A man in a diving suit emerges.

100 seconds-long six-scene footage consisting of selected coronation ceremonies of the Russian Tsar (Emperor) Nicholas II. Shows distinguished guests...