1896 Movies

A crowd of young children dance around.

Police detachment in Germany.

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

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

Black people are cleaning and washing the floor.

Young people are having a sack race between two rows of spectators who are greatly amused by the falls and various adventures of this amusing contest.

This lost film presumably features a train arriving at Vincennes station, eastern Paris. (Until 2020, was confused with Arrival at Joinville flipbook....

The royal family of Italy go for a walk in the park.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

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...

An actuallity film of a fairground carousel in action. Filmmaker unknown but it has been suggested it is R.W. Paul. The film was made on Hampstead hea...

Persimmon winning the 1896 Epsom Derby. Not to be confused with 'The Derby 1985' from the same director.

4 horse drawn fire brigade carts pull out from Newcastle fire station in the UK as part of a filmed demonstration

Military parade shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin

A staged film where over 100 cyclists cycle towards the camera.

Parade by military cyclists.

Shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin

Native Mexican people grouped in front of the camera.

An actuality film of traffic and pedestrian movement at the end of a bridge. In the distance on the other side of the bridge, the tops of some large b...