1896 Movies

Jumping the Blanket.

Britain's first drama (i.e. non documentary) film.

Street scene in Berlin.

Lyon, Men rescue rabbits from flood.

A horse-drawn carriage stops in front of a villa. The residents greet the newcomers, as the coach driver unloads baggages.

An early Algerian film depicting donkeys

A shot of a ship that is being unloaded.

A group of black youths jumping from a dock into the water.

A stationary camera placed amidships looks toward the round end of a 10- or 12-foot boiler that's been loaded onto the open deck. Three men climb down...

The film reproduces a magic act Méliès performed at his Paris theater-of-illusions, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin. Conjuring is notable as Méliès's secon...

From the BFI Collection, this film is actually two films spliced together into one. The first is Birt Acres' work 'A Corner of Barnet Fair' which is t...

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

Husband comes home late and wakes the wife. Based on a popular stage play.

Men walk by as a dog lays about. Just out of view, a crippled man is begging for money.

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

Brooklyn, Fulton Street

Mexicans lassoing a horse.

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...

Probably the first video of a Pope: Leo XIII blesses the viewers and makes a trip on his coach.