1896 Movies

A wife dismisses a maid she hired when she finds her husband flirting with her. Allegedly the first film to ever use intertitles.

Herding cows

Mexican vaqueros (cattle herders) in Guadalajara guide their horses through water.

Félicien Trewey swirls a large white ribbon around him.

Geneva (Exhibition 1896): back to the barn.

Fire brigade response to an alarm in Berlin.

A short film of boats sailing in the New York Harbor

"A battalion of New York's famous mounted police at inspection. They approach at break-neck gallop." - from the Edison Catalog

A fellow in a wide-brimmed hat, with a willowy stick for a rod and a baited hook, sits down on a plank hanging over a bridge above a stream. He sticks...

Rollerskating in Central Park.

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

Bains sur le Rhône short film from 1896 by Louis Lumière.

Alice Guy-Blaché's third film for Gaumont.

100 seconds-long six-scene footage consisting of selected coronation ceremonies of the Russian Tsar (Emperor) Nicholas II. Shows distinguished guests...

Short from 1896.

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...

One of a few versions of the "arrival of the train" narrative. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flip...