1896 Movies

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

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...

Geneva (Exhibition 1896): back to the barn.

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

A black and white short from the Lumière brothers in which a crowds is filmed at the Place de l'Opèra in Paris.

The camera shows a water ride at Bergen Beach at Coney Island. A raised track filled with water forms a chute, and a small boat full of park visitors...

Vaudeville dancer Amy Muller performs a portion of her stage routine, which features dancing on her toes. She dances on one toe for part of the perfor...

The Count of Montebello and General de Boisdeffre arrive at the coronation of Nicholas II of Russia.

Panoramic film from the Lumiere Catalogue.

A small boat is approaching waterfalls, shrouded in thick fog, in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland.

A battalion, preceded by three riders and a military marching band, parades in front of the crowd. A man is manoeuvring a handcart bearing the inscrip...

A shot of a ship that is being unloaded.

Teasing tigers with meat.

This film documents the 1896 Melbourne Cup horse race including footage of the crowd watching the race.

"A well-known character, in a dance that created considerable excitement when first introduced in America."

View of the Westminster Bridge.

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...

Children dig for clams on the beach

Asian and Near Eastern diplomats and royalty file past the camera on their way to the coronation of Czar Nicholas II of Russia.

An actuality film of traffic and pedestrian movement at the end of a bridge. In the distance on the other side of the bridge, the tops of some large b...