1896 Movies

Back from fishing, fishermen in a boat pull out sardines caught in the net.

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

A small boat is approaching waterfalls, shrouded in thick fog, in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland.

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...

Two girls do one of their chores. Standing alongside a tree-lined farmhouse, two children who are about ten and four years old toss grain to a flock o...

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

This picture was taken at one of the curves on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, along the beautiful Susquehanna River. The train is seen rapidly approachin...

New York, travelers descent of the Brooklyn Bridge

A Paris street scene.

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...

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...

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...

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

A Berlin street scene.

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