1896 Movies

People dismount and mount a gondola.

Probably the first video of a Pope: Leo XIII blesses the viewers and makes a trip on his coach.

A stationary camera looks west across Niagara Falls from the United States' side (the Niagara River rushes toward the falls from right to left). Virtu...

A short black and white film by the Lumiere brothers which captures the crowd at the Cologne Cathedral after the main religious services.

Husband comes home late and wakes the wife. Based on a popular stage play.

Porters bring goods into a warehouse.

Procession on a Budapest street.

Women hauling coke in wheelbarrows.

A cockfight.

A mounted Mexican president poses for the camera.

A fixed camera gets images of traffic and passers-by in Vienna's chic thoroughfare, popularly known as Ringstrasse (The Ring),at a junction with anot...

Three girls and a boy playing with their toys.

Taken in 1896 on the Boulevard (upper Broadway) on the occasion of a bicycle parade in the heyday of the wheeling craze. Old-fashioned horse cars lend...

At the launch of a ship, of which we can only see the hull, the audience moves aside.

Poor pedestrian, horse drawn carts, wagons and bus travel across bridge at Sunderland, Tyne and Wear.