All Films

Concours de bébés

1896 • 1 min • France

A crowd of young children dance around.

Cavalcade (char de la soierie)

1896 • 1 min • France

A parade with large floats. One stops in front of the camera.

Rome, pont Ripetta

1896 • 1 min

A street scene in Rome from the Lumière Brothers.

Pompiers : sortie de la pompe

1896 • 1 min

Several fire-carriages, presumably heading to a fire.

Pigeons sur la place Saint-Marc

1896 • 1 min • France

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

Maximilianeum

1896 • 1 min • France

A street scene in Munich from the Lumière Brothers.

Melbourne, les courses : présentation du vainqueur

1896 • 1 min • France

Coach W. Hickenbotham takes "Newhaven" out of his box and places the horse at the center of the paddock. Gardiner, the jockey, saddles up the horse, rides it and begins to spin, slowly.

Why Papa Cannot Sleep

1896 • 1 min

"Shows papa walking the floor with a crying baby in his arms. An exceedingly laughable subject."

Brighton Beach

1896 • 1 min • United Kingdom

People being fully dressed walking on the beach.

Panorama pris depuis une plate-forme mobile

1896 • 1 min • France

Lumiere panorama shot.

Panorama de l’arrivée à Aix-les-Bains pris du train (temps de neige)

1896 • 1 min

Panoramic film from the Lumiere Catalogue.

Persimmons Winning the Derby

1896 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Persimmon winning the 1896 Epsom Derby. Not to be confused with 'The Derby 1985' from the same director.

Venise, arrivée en gondole

1896 • 1 min • France

People dismount and mount a gondola.

La Bourse

1896 • 1 min • France

Dense pedestrian, trams and cars traffic on the street, in front of the Palais de la Bourse in Marseille.

Loading the Fishing Nets

1896 • 1 min • France

Fishermen at the port of La Ciotat load their nets onto a boat, preparing to head out to sea. This early Lumière actuality captures a glimpse of everyday labor along the French coast.

Devil's Dyke Fun Fair

1896 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Early film footage of fun fair workers and revelers at Devil's Dyke on the South Downs, taken by pioneer James Williamson in around 1896. At a fair at Devil's Dyke, boys scrap beside wooden swing boats. Others, wearing dark suits, watch chains and caps, stretch up to push one of the swing boats. The boys are aware of the camera, which films them from a fixed position. A couple swing sticks in the air, playing up to the camera while the boys work. At the merry-go-round, two women stand in the foreground. They wear shirts with full pleated sleeves and boaters. Other visitors to the fair pass by the camera, including a man with a pipe and a woman with a wide cloak. Young visitors ride on a track, the South Downs in view behind. They cycle, turning a wheel in front of them. An open-top carriage rides away from the camera and back again along a switchback railway, driven by a worker who jumps on and off.

Londres : entrée de Hyde Park

1896 • 1 min • France

Static shot of the traffic at Hyde Park Corner, London.

Moutons entrant à l'abattoir

1896 • 1 min • France

Sheep pass through a gate and enter a courtyard; a man counts them in passing.

Paul Nadar lisant l'Écho de Paris à la terrasse d'un café

1896 • 1 min • France

Sortie de fabrique

1896 • 1 min • France

People leaving the factory.

Horses Bathing

1896 • 1 min • France

Mexican vaqueros (cattle herders) in Guadalajara guide their horses through water.

Assiettes tournantes

1896 • 1 min • France

Félicien Trewey, performing his spinning plates routine.

Serpentine Dance

1896 • 1 min

Hand-color. Silent. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/301943

Pont de Westminster

1896 • 1 min • France

View of the Westminster Bridge.