1896 Movies

Sovereign Nicholas II, Alexandra Feodorovna and President Félix Faure, walking by, followed by their respective escorts.

Artist draws Thomas Edison.

This is the first film ever filmed in Stockholm, Sweden. The part of the city featured is Djurgården (Tiergarten in German). It is where the unique ou...

A lady watering the garden with a hose, a mischievous boy stops the flow of water until she looks for the cause, when he permits the water to flow, re...

The parade occupies only a small portion of the screen, the crowds are a seething mass that do really move and the Independence Bell is nowhere to be...

Different species of fish and frogs, inside an aquarium.

This lost film presumably features a train arriving at Vincennes station, eastern Paris. (Until 2020, was confused with Arrival at Joinville flipbook....

A crowd watches the Newark Fire Department respond to a call.

The first hand-tinted movie, showing a group of dancers.

Five black and white minstrels dancing and playing musical instruments in Rupert Street, London.

Three athletes make their way to wicker baskets that contain a mishmash of wacky costumes. They need to dress up as quickly as they can, and make thei...

Back from fishing, fishermen in a boat pull out sardines caught in the net.

A roller skater performs a series of eccentric exercises.

A look at the waterfalls of the Passaic River in the northern New Jersey city of Passaic.

Mexicans doing a rodeo.