1896 Movies

Starting for the Fire (1896),directed by James H. White for the Edison Manufacturing Company, was filmed on location in Newark, New Jersey. The short...

Two card players get into a quarrel; a gardener who was watering plants near them, seeing them both fighting, directs his hose at the two combatants,...

Pedestrians and a tram crossing the bridge in front of the Maximilianeum.

Two men have a contest to see which one can be the first to eat a large slice of watermelon.

Taken in 1896 on the Boulevard (upper Broadway) on the occasion of a bicycle parade in the heyday of the wheeling craze. Old-fashioned horse cars lend...

Exiting through various gates of the cathedral, people descend the stairs and scatter across the square.

A lion in its cage as the keeper passes it food through the bars.

A firefighter, at the top of the ladder, sprays the building with his hose; to the right, two other hoses are activated.

A crowd of passers-by is granted access to a drawbridge by its gatekeeper.

Dragoons escorting officers on horseback.

Artist draws Thomas Edison.

The dancer Fatima, well-known for her dancing shows at the World's Exhibition in 1893, performs for the camera. She opens her act by twirling around a...

Show of Mexican ranchers catching cows.

Dragoons split into two lines and dismount.

Pedestrian and tram traffic on the square.

“The scene depicts the collapse of a section of wall in a factory.” As workers carry away wheelbarrows of rubble, a wall tips over and collapses in a...

Horses and their riders make their way into the compact and agitated crowd of spectators.

Parade of halberdiers in the courtyard of the royal palace.