1896 Movies

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

A Berlin street scene.

A shot of a ship that is being unloaded.

A stationary camera looks west across Niagara Falls from the United States' side (the Niagara River rushes toward the falls from right to left). Virtu...

View of the Westminster Bridge.

Dangled precariously off a boat, a baby falls into the river. Many people on the bank quickly scramble to its rescue.

Three women get in a horse-drawn carriage, as servants load luggage on the roof, before it pulls away.

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...

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...

Based on a real event that occurred between two deputies, in Chapultepec Park.

In front of a building, five carpenters are working on woodworking machines.

New York, travelers descent of the Brooklyn Bridge

A burning wagon is dragged from the barn by the firemen, and four horses are rescued from the flames by the stablemen. Thick volumes of smoke pour fro...

Circulation of passers-by and cars in the paved street on the occasion of the Tsar's coronation.

A short film from the Lumière brothers, filmed in a Dresden street.

The Boxing Kangaroo is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent documentary film, produced and directed by Birt Acres for exhibition on Robert W....

Film made at Hyde Park Corner in 1896 by an unknown filmmaker. It looks south west across Grosvenor Place. The southern wing of St George's Hospital (...

A friendly card game goes sour fast.