1896 Movies

Bains sur le Rhône short film from 1896 by Louis Lumière.

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...

Javanese dancers performing a folk dance.

In a dry dock, men operate an air pump to supply a diver who, once out of the water, is undressed by other men.

Men working at the shipyards of La Ciotat.

Pedestrian and vehicle traffic in front of the Panoptikum.

Short made in Mexico.

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

Children are playing with sailboats on the pond.

One of a few versions of the "arrival of the train" narrative. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flip...

The crowd gathers, on the lawn, in front of the grandstand.

In a sunny open air setting with a background of high, deep foliage trees, and a white-walled storeyed house, an acrobat with light shirt and trousers...

A clip by Gabriel Veyre showing horses galloping at a Mexican festival.

Queen Victoria and family experience the new 'cinematograph process'.

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

Children play near a pile of sand under the watchful eye of a woman while passers-by, cabs and carriages parade along the Avenue des Champs-Élysées.