1896 Movies

In a sunny open air setting with a background of high, deep foliage trees, and a white-walled storeyed house, an acrobat with light shirt and trousers...

Reception of German Emperor William II in Frankfurt am Main.

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...

This is a typical Irish argument in which a can of beer, clay pipes and two sons of Erin form the principal parts.

A servant persuades a cellist to play and his errant wife returns.

A view of Piccadilly Circus in London.

A bout between a tall man and a dwarf.

Sandow and Peerless Annabelle were the first performers filmed by the new American Mutoscope Co. Annabelle reprised her Butterfly Dance and several ot...

Passers-by on a street market in Marseille.

Cyclists and horse riders arriving at the cottage (1896)

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

Three cats take turns jumping up, in order to catch some food that a woman's hand is holding above their heads.