1896 Movies

Early film footage of fun fair workers and revelers at Devil's Dyke on the South Downs, taken by pioneer James Williamson in around 1896. At a fair at...

This is just at the title suggests. it's the McKinley and Hobart Parade at Canton

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...

A tramp steals a housewife's pie, and is pursued by her bulldog, which latches onto his rear as he scrambles over a fence.

A view from across the landing at Coney Island as a boat shoots down the track. "Shooting the Chutes" sign can be seen in the background.

Children diving into the river.

A look at a public square in Paris.

This short film – less than two minutes long – captures the arrival of the first train from Cascais to Cais do Sodré.

Another ordinary street scene.

The first X-ray cinematograph film ever taken, shown by Dr. MacIntyre at the London Royal Society (1896 and 1909). X-ray pictures of a frog knee joint...

Rumored to be shot by Georges Demenÿ.

Two unidentified actresses on stage; one of them plays a male character dressed in a 16th-century costume, who is delighted by the dance of a ballerin...

Lost film by Kazimierz Prószyński. A shot of people walking on Ujazdow Avenue.

Watering the Flowers (French: L'Arroseur) was an 1896 French short comedy film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's company Star Fi...

Police parade in Germany.

A Japanese veil dance is performed

The 1896 film Défilé du 38e régiment du génie à Madrid (Parade of the 38th Regiment of Engineers in Madrid) is a historical French documentary film th...

Performance of a ballet - was found among the films collected by Gregorio Antonino María Sagarmínaga

Men walk by as a dog lays about. Just out of view, a crippled man is begging for money.