1896 Movies

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

Porters bring goods into a warehouse.

Passage of three carriages, escorted by lackeys and soldiers.

Jumping the Blanket.

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

From the BFI Collection, this film is actually two films spliced together into one. The first is Birt Acres' work 'A Corner of Barnet Fair' which is t...

Dragons escorting officers on horseback.

A mounted Mexican president poses for the camera.

The water beats relentlessly against the Hell's Mouth (Boca do Inferno),one of the main natural attractions of Lisbon's west coast, filmed from above...

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

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

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...

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...

A stationary camera looks across a busy corner toward a store front marked "The Divan." The words "des fees" are beneath. A cortege of Arabs, about 20...

A woman dances - preserved in flipbook form.

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