1896 Movies

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...

People dismount and mount a gondola.

Several competitors take part in a friendly sack race, with widely varying degrees of success.

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

A large wedding procession.

Considered a remake of Lumière's La Voltige from 1895.

Two babies are shown seated next to each other, in high chairs, apparently enjoying themselves. Suddenly one snatches a toy from the other and they in...

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

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

“Mammy is washing her little pickaninny. She thrusts him, kicking and struggling, into a tub full of foaming suds.” (Edison film catalog)

Two men have a contest to see which one can be the first to eat a large slice of watermelon.

Passengers leaving a ship in Lyon.

A quarrel between two women that a man attempts to separate.

In the foreground, smoke billows. Four horse-drawn fire wagons approach and pass in front of a stationary camera. Two horses draw each wagon, and each...