1896 Movies

Pedestrian, trams, carriages and carts traffic at the intersection of two streets on La Canebière in Marseille.

A woman feeds pigeons on the Piazza San Marco in Venice.

A group of ten infant girls are on a playground. They are in pairs, matched in height. They are doing an organised dance. Each pair twirls simultaneou...

One of a few versions of the "arrival of the train" narrative. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flip...

"This scene shows almost the entire Fire Department led by the Chief, responding to an alarm. The horses, said to be the finest of their kind in the c...

Static shot of the traffic at Hyde Park Corner, London.

"A battalion of New York's famous mounted police at inspection. They approach at break-neck gallop." - from the Edison Catalog

The Boxing Kangaroo is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent documentary film, produced and directed by Birt Acres for exhibition on Robert W....

A cockfight.

A stationary camera looks across a busy corner toward a store front marked "The Divan." The words "des fees" are beneath. A cortege of Arabs, about 20...

Herding cows

Film made at Hyde Park Corner in 1896 by an unknown filmmaker. It looks south west across Grosvenor Place. The southern wing of St George's Hospital (...

Working men and women leave the Lumière factory, through the main gate. Three separate versions of this film exist, this is the second remake "no hors...

A stationary camera looks across Burgundy's river Sâone toward a small military encampment. Four horsemen enter the water in the foreground, each ridi...