1896 Movies

Heavy pedestrian and vehicle traffic in the square.

Poor pedestrian, horse drawn carts, wagons and bus travel across bridge at Sunderland, Tyne and Wear.

The camera shows a water ride at Bergen Beach at Coney Island. A raised track filled with water forms a chute, and a small boat full of park visitors...

"A well-known character, in a dance that created considerable excitement when first introduced in America."

Heavy traffic of pedestrians, trams and cars on a street.

Cuirassiers approach at a gallop and, having arrived near the officers, lash the air with their sabers and scatter in all directions.

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

Men are unloading sacks of grain from a yardarm while the sacks are being weighed.

A regiment of cuirassiers advances at a gallop en masse then splits into two columns.

A Football Match at Newcastle-on-Tyne refers to a one-minute film recorded in October 1896 by English film pioneer Robert William Paul. According to s...

Trunks and crates are loaded onto the steamer “Genève” while the passengers board the deck via a second gangway.

The cuirassiers mount their horses and parade in ranks.

In the port of Naples, about fifteen fishermen are hauling their fishing nets by pulling on the cable.

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...

Workers securing a boiler to the deck of a ship.

To the rhythm of the drum, young girls perform a gymnastic exercise in the courtyard of a high school, and parade while holding sticks.

A stationary camera looks across a busy corner toward a store front marked "The Divan." The words "des fees" are beneath. A cortege of Arabs, about 20...

Rumored to be shot by Georges Demenÿ.