1896 Movies

Top-hatted pedestrians and horse-drawn traffic pass over Blackfriars Bridge in London.

Street scene in Berlin.

The film reproduces a magic act Méliès performed at his Paris theater-of-illusions, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin. Conjuring is notable as Méliès's secon...

Pedestrian traffic in the street.

A man teaches a woman to ride a bycicle. Shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin

Young boys going into the sea water by Brighton's West Pier in the UK to pick up pennies thrown in by people on the pier.

A group of schoolboys play in the snow after school, tackling one another and tumbling to the ground in a playful winter melee

A woman dances - preserved in flipbook form.

A tram arrives to pick up passengers.

A staged film where over 100 cyclists cycle towards the camera.

A group of children are encouraged to play in a park by two men. Some play a skipping game. One of the other children refuses and eventually runs away...

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....

Governor Thomas Lord Brassey and his entourage walk past, under the watchful eye of the police and the cheers of the crowd.

Early short film

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

Children diving into the river.

Campinos on horseback drive small herds of cattle through the vast area of the traditional fair, before prospective buyers.

Shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin