1896 Movies

Britain's first drama (i.e. non documentary) film.

“Mammy is washing her little pickaninny. She thrusts him, kicking and struggling, into a tub full of foaming suds.” (Edison film catalog)

Several competitors take part in a friendly sack race, with widely varying degrees of success.

Passengers leaving a ship in Lyon.

Friends and relatives playing a game of boules, arguing about who's team is winning.

Russian sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Fiodorovna, and President Felix Faure, parading down the Champs-Elysées in a carriage, followed by horseme...

A mother takes her children for a walk, lifts her baby girl out of the buggy and gently sets her down to the ground. She then moves a few steps away a...

A stationary camera looks west across Niagara Falls from the United States' side (the Niagara River rushes toward the falls from right to left). Virtu...

Considered a remake of Lumière's La Voltige from 1895.

Félicien Trewey, performing his spinning plates routine.

Students in Lyon.

Men working at the shipyards of La Ciotat.

The facade and the traffic in front of the Cinematographe in London, close to the large ensign of the historical Empire Theatre, in London.

Trilby lounges on a table with her shoes off, smoking, laughing, enjoying a piece of cake, and kissing her friend in a scene from the popular eponymou...

Short of the Tuileries.

Lumière Brothers film automobiles driving at the Champs-Elysées.

Husband comes home late and wakes the wife. Based on a popular stage play.

Pedestrians, carts and trams traffic, on Whitehall Street in New York.