1896 Movies

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...

Comic short featuring soldier characters. Shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin

American Falls, from Incline R.R. (1896) is a brief silent actuality directed by James H. White and produced by Thomas A. Edison. Filmed from a touris...

Men working at the shipyards of La Ciotat.

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...

The first part of the film shows an actuality street scene of traffic in the Strand. Behind the traffic we can see the entrance to the Gaiety Theatre...

A short black and white film in which a fixed camera records a busy New York street, Broadway.

“Black people perform a dance from their country in a London street.” A troupe of white musicians in blackface play and dance in the street in front o...

After being alerted, firefighters rush out of the station.

Parade of a regiment of lancers.

These rocks, near Biarritz, are very well known. The scene depicts the rough sea crashing against their base. There are no figures.

The first movie audiences took particular delight in scenes of rushing, churning water. These scenes of Niagara Falls were taken in September 1896, wh...

Yarmouth Fishing Boats Leaving Harbour is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent documentary film, directed by Birt Acres, featuring a fleet of...

A "gigantic demonstration of the Business Men's Republican and Sound Money Association" on 10/31/1896, opposing "Free Silver" Democrats in the upcomin...

Staged boxing match between Sergeant-Instructor Barrett and Sergeant Pope, with a round, interval, and knockout.

A family, including the father, the mother and two children, is seated around a table and eating their meal.

Two men are sitting on a park bench. One of them attempts to play a trick to the other, by tying up his handkerchief. In the end, however, the table i...

Two women perform a choreographed 'Russian' dance routine.