1896 Movies

Félicien Trewey, performing his spinning plates routine.

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

A Paris street scene.

The rough sea crashing upon rocks.

Panoramic film from the Lumiere Catalogue.

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

A boat returns to port, where passengers are helped ashore.

Carmaux is in south-central France, near the Tarn River. As a brick of coke, about four feet high and three feet wide, is gradually pushed out of a sm...

Félicien Trewey performs a trick by writing backwards the words "Ladies and gentlemen, my grateful thanks" on a board.

Lumière Brothers film automobiles driving at the Champs-Elysées.

Circulation of passers-by and cars in the paved street on the occasion of the Tsar's coronation.

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

The parade occupies only a small portion of the screen, the crowds are a seething mass that do really move and the Independence Bell is nowhere to be...

Based on a real event that occurred between two deputies, in Chapultepec Park.

The floods of the Saône river during the first week of November, 1896.

People waiting in line for, what one can only assume, a Lumiere production.

A woman feeds pigeons on the Piazza San Marco in Venice.

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