All Films

Little Egypt

1896 • 1 min • United States of America

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

Lyon: Débarquement d'une mouche

1896 • 1 min • France

Passengers leaving a ship in Lyon.

Danse russe

1896 • 1 min • France

Mademoiselle Zambelli de l'Opéra

1896 • 1 min • France

A dramatic dance, filmed by Paul Nadar in 1898. Preserved by Langlois' Cinematheque.

The Card Game

1896 • 1 min • France

Three men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves drinks.

Miss de Vère - English Jig

1896 • 1 min • France

A woman dances - preserved in flipbook form.

Joueurs de cartes arrosés

1896 • 1 min • France

A friendly card game goes sour fast.

View on Boulevard, New York City

1896 • 1 min

Taken in 1896 on the Boulevard (upper Broadway) on the occasion of a bicycle parade in the heyday of the wheeling craze. Old-fashioned horse cars lend interest to the scene.

Conjurer Making Ten Hats in Sixty Seconds

1896 • 1 min • France

A man does tricks by forming hats and then putting them on. Fragment available in flipbook format, otherwise lost.

Sortie d’usine, [II]

1896 • 1 min • France

Pompiers à Lyon

1896 • 1 min

In the foreground, smoke billows. Four horse-drawn fire wagons approach and pass in front of a stationary camera. Two horses draw each wagon, and each wagon carries from two to eight firefighters. After the wagons pass, carts and pedestrians resume traffic on the street.

Arrivée en voiture

1896 • 1 min • France

A horse-drawn carriage stops in front of a villa. The residents greet the newcomers, as the coach driver unloads baggages.

Guillaume Tell

1896 • 1 min • France

Serpentine Dance by Annabelle

1896 • 4 min • United States of America

Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs her popular serpentine dance routine. She twirls around, and as she does so, she uses her long skirts to create a variety of patterns. Each print consists of Annabelle's serpentine dance from 1894-1897.

A Terrible Night

1896 • 1 min • France

A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.

Voitures automobiles

1896 • 1 min • France

Motor cars of different models, drivers, passengers and observers, all filmed from the starting line of the Paris-Meulan race.

London, Cinematography Entry

1896 • 1 min • France

The facade and the traffic in front of the Cinematographe in London, close to the large ensign of the historical Empire Theatre, in London.

Le président en promenade

1896 • 1 min • France, Mexico

A mounted Mexican president poses for the camera.

Budapest, Crown Procession

1896 • 1 min • Hungary

Procession on a Budapest street.

La Canebière

1896 • 1 min • France

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

A Serpentine Dance

1896 • 1 min

A Serpentine dance performance, possibly featuring Loie Fuller (though the record is unclear). While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu around the same time

Exit of Rip and the Dwarf

1896 • 1 min • United States of America

A series of short black and white films from director William K.L. Dickson which chronicle the adventures of Rip Van Winkle.

Paris: Les souverains russes et le président de la République aux Champs-Élysées

1896 • 1 min • France

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

Arrival of a Train at Vincennes Station

1896 • 1 min • France

This lost film presumably features a train arriving at Vincennes station, eastern Paris. (Until 2020, was confused with Arrival at Joinville flipbook.)