1895 Movies

An 1895 British short black and white silent comedy film featuring two drunken men and a boy squabbling in a small bar.

A young woman dancer with large, flowing robes, swirls round herself quickly, making her light robe flow around her like a butterfly's wings.

The two inventors of the Bioskop, a sort of magic lantern that projected images so fast as to give the illusion of movement, bow to the camera at both...

A man performs tricks on a theatre stage with a bowler hat and a billiards ball in equilibrium on his arms and body.

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a farrier prepares a horse's hoof to receive...

On 1 November 1895, the brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky presented their pioneer film work and legendary Bioscop program in Berlin′s Wintergarten Th...

Pedestrian and various vehicles traffic on Place Bellecour, in Lyon.

A western short depicting the execution of a horse thief by a group of enraged cowboys. This film is considered to be lost.

Part of the Wintergartenprogramm.

Princess Ali, of Barnum and Bailey's circus, performs an Egyptian dance in the Edison Company's studio. As she dances, some musicians perform in the b...

Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.

A man and a woman, observed by others, are playing a game of Tric-trac, a French variant of Backgammon. During the course of the game, the man gets ca...

Eight circus performers known as the Grunato family perform their famous balancing act.

A man strolling in a city street is attacked by three assailants. A policeman comes to the rescue and the men struggle with each other.

Former lightweight boxer Billy Edwards, now a trainer and writer of the sport, takes on a challenger named Warwick in an exhibition match. The match i...

A policeman catches a pickpocket with the assistance of a passing a sailor.

The sinister mesmerist Svengali hypnotizes two characters, then dies abruptly in a Trilby segment from David Henderson's Aladdin, Jr. burlesque. Lost.

Directed by W.K.L Dickson.

The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.

Scene represents section of the interior of a Chinese Opium Den.