1895 Movies

Scene from a Trilby-themed stage play. Lost.

A French squadron leader runs with bent legs.

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

A lost film of two boxers.

A short of Mr. Grundy dancing. He's a Black man in a jockey outfit and there's someone in a horse costume dancing next to him.

Samoan Islanders from Barnum & Bailey's Circus perform a dance.

Directed by W.K.L Dickson.

A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem),a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing...

The Leigh Sisters perform a risqué Trilby-inspired dance with an umbrella. Scene from David Henderson's Aladdin, Jr. burlesque. Lost.

The sinister mesmerist Svengali hypnotizes a group of people and compels them to perform various humorous acts in a Trilby segment from David Henderso...

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

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

The participants are natives of Ceylon. Their dance is very interesting being so different from Western ideas of harmonies of motion.

Two men, arguing about the content of a newspaper article, come to blows.

Directed by Birt Acres.

Anonymous performer for Edison Manufacturing Co.

Lost film by Kazimierz Prószyński. A shot of people walking on Franciscan Street.

A group of men, identified as "Muslims of Saint-Louis," at the Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.

Oscar de Raoul demonstrates a bendy walk.

An ordinary walk.