1896 Movies

A woman feeds pigeons on the Piazza San Marco in Venice.

A burning wagon is dragged from the barn by the firemen, and four horses are rescued from the flames by the stablemen. Thick volumes of smoke pour fro...

A Berlin street scene.

A wedding party leave church in this Lumière brothers' short film.

A large wedding procession.

A stationary camera looks across Burgundy's river Sâone toward a small military encampment. Four horsemen enter the water in the foreground, each ridi...

A soldier is talking to a woman while sitting on a bench, a man sits on it, and the soldier stands up, causing the bench to tip over and the man falls...

Vaudeville dancer Amy Muller performs a portion of her stage routine, which features dancing on her toes. She dances on one toe for part of the perfor...

A stationary camera placed amidships looks toward the round end of a 10- or 12-foot boiler that's been loaded onto the open deck. Three men climb down...

Panoramic film from the Lumiere Catalogue.

Another street scene from the Lumiere company

Three girls and a boy playing with their toys.

Russian sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Fiodorovna, and President Felix Faure, parading down the Champs-Elysées in a carriage, followed by horseme...

A battalion, preceded by three riders and a military marching band, parades in front of the crowd. A man is manoeuvring a handcart bearing the inscrip...

A train pulls into the station, and the crowd of travelers invades the dock.

Three men are chopping and transporting firewood, among passers-by, on a square in Lausanne.

Considered a remake of Lumière's La Voltige from 1895.

Pedestrian, trams, carriages and carts traffic at the intersection of two streets on La Canebière in Marseille.

The Boxing Kangaroo is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent documentary film, produced and directed by Birt Acres for exhibition on Robert W....