1896 Movies

Parade of chasseurs and spahis.

“These two views were taken in Stuttgart during a festival.” Costumed men parade, the first on foot, others on horseback, along the road.

"A battalion of New York's famous mounted police at inspection. They approach at break-neck gallop." - from the Edison Catalog

Traffic of pedestrians and various vehicles on an avenue.

Trilby lounges on a table with her shoes off, smoking, laughing, enjoying a piece of cake, and kissing her friend in a scene from the popular eponymou...

Soldiers greet each other and then practice handling their weapons and attacking.

Pedestrian and vehicle traffic on the bridge.

Departure of cars of different models for the Paris-Meulan excursion.

A stationary camera looks west across Niagara Falls from the United States' side (the Niagara River rushes toward the falls from right to left). Virtu...

Yarmouth Fishing Boats Leaving Harbour is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent documentary film, directed by Birt Acres, featuring a fleet of...

100 seconds-long six-scene footage consisting of selected coronation ceremonies of the Russian Tsar (Emperor) Nicholas II. Shows distinguished guests...

“Mammy is washing her little pickaninny. She thrusts him, kicking and struggling, into a tub full of foaming suds.” (Edison film catalog)

American Falls, from Incline R.R. (1896) is a brief silent actuality directed by James H. White and produced by Thomas A. Edison. Filmed from a touris...

Walking four abreast, in groups of six rows, 144 of Chicago's finest parade past a stationary camera. Each of the six groups that pass is escorted by...

A train ride with a view from the back of the train.

A view of the Mont-Blanc bridge in Geneva.

A look at the waterfalls of the Passaic River in the northern New Jersey city of Passaic.

Two women and a man come aboard a small boat. On the dock, friends and family are waving goodbye, until the boat moves out of focus.

A short look at Surf Ave., Coney Island.

Horse-drawn carriages and omnibuses circulate among the crowd.