1896 Movies

Men and women take turns performing short Russian dance figures.

Britain's first drama (i.e. non documentary) film.

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

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

Herding cows

Brighton. Landing of party from small boat with comic incidents.

The first movie audiences took particular delight in scenes of rushing, churning water. These scenes of Niagara Falls were taken in September 1896, wh...

On a dock, a crane lifts the stall where a horse is locked and pivots.

A parade of horsemen followed by carriages in which were the Russian sovereigns Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna and President Félix Faure.

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

Félicien Trewey, performing his spinning plates routine.

A parade of carriages escorted by armored horsemen in front of an enthusiastic crowd.

A succession of attacks and defensive parries by the fencers.

Dragoons practicing swordsmanship.

Panorama of the flooded countryside.

Women hauling coke in wheelbarrows.

At a high window, the firefighters installed a canvas sleeve that extended down to the ground, and the people slid down this sleeve to escape the flam...

A street scene in Rome from the Lumière Brothers.