1896 Movies

A Serpentine dance performance, possibly featuring Loie Fuller (though the record is unclear). While the film is lost, there is a new digital version...

A very graceful dance with voluminous draperies, by Annabelle Moore, well-known on the metropolitan stage.

The German infantry parades in front of Nicholas II and Wilhelm II.

Early film footage of fun fair workers and revelers at Devil's Dyke on the South Downs, taken by pioneer James Williamson in around 1896. At a fair at...

A short clip of United States military on horses

"A company of little darkies showing off their paces to the music of the banjo."

A soldier is talking to a woman while sitting on a bench, a man sits on it, and the soldier stands up, causing the bench to tip over and the man falls...

A small boat, with three men aboard, is shaken by the backwash.

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

Motor cars of different models, drivers, passengers and observers, all filmed from the starting line of the Paris-Meulan race.

The Alhambra Girls perform a dance at Alhambra Theatre, London. Lost.

A man and a woman dance "jarabe tapatío" while some people watch.

Coach W. Hickenbotham takes "Newhaven" out of his box and places the horse at the center of the paddock. Gardiner, the jockey, saddles up the horse,...

A crowd of young children dance around.

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

An actuallity film of a fairground carousel in action. Filmmaker unknown but it has been suggested it is R.W. Paul. The film was made on Hampstead hea...

Matadors exiting carriages in Madrid.