All Films

Danse Tyrolienne

1896 • 1 min • France

A Tyrolean dancing couple, accompanied by a musician, perform a traditional folk dance in a park in Cologne.

Interrupted Lovers

1896 • 1 min • United States of America

“The watchful father disturbs a dream of bliss, and the bucolic lover is taught a lesson. He made a great hit.” (Edison film catalog)

The Kiss

1896 • 1 min • United States of America

They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.

The Soldier's Courtship

1896 • 1 min • United Kingdom

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

Blackfriars Bridge

1896 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Top-hatted pedestrians and horse-drawn traffic pass over Blackfriars Bridge in London.

Footpads

1896 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A staged scene of a mugging on a London street. The interesting feature here is the hand controlled flashing light street sign used in the backdrop, showing us in a short glimpse that we would have seen such signs in the earliest days of electricity on city streets.

Royal Train

1896 • 1 min

Waves Breaking

1896 • 1 min • France

Rumored to be shot by Georges Demenÿ.

Lone Fisherman

1896 • 1 min • United States of America

A fellow in a wide-brimmed hat, with a willowy stick for a rod and a baited hook, sits down on a plank hanging over a bridge above a stream. He sticks the rod under his seat and picks up his bottle to take a swig. Behind him creeps a joker who removes the large flagstone that's holding the fisherman's plank in place.

The Derby

1896 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Fire Brigade

1896 • 1 min • United Kingdom

4 horse drawn fire brigade carts pull out from Newcastle fire station in the UK as part of a filmed demonstration

Sandow

1896 • 1 min • United States of America

Strong-man Eugene Sandow flexes his muscles and strikes a few poses in front of a black background. This was a short film shot by William K.L. Dickson for the American Mutoscope Company and is not the 1894 Edison film shot at the Black Maria.

Rocky Shore

1896 • 1 min

This attractively composed one-shot film offers viewers an uncomplicated view of waves crashing against rocks.

Course en Flexion (Oscar de Raoul)

1895 • 1 min • France

A French squadron leader runs with bent legs.

Performing Animals; or, Skipping Dogs

1895 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring one dog jumping through hoops and another dancing in a costume, which was considered lost until footage from an 1896 Fairground Programme was identified as being from this film.

Nicholas Sisters Split Dance

1895 • 1 min • United States of America

The Nicholas Sisters perform a "split dance" from a Koster & Bial’s Music Hall stage production.

Young Griffo v. Battling Charles Barnett

1895 • 4 min • United States of America

A lost film of two boxers.

Robetta and Doretto, No. 1

1895 • 1 min

Scene represents section of the interior of a Chinese Opium Den.

James Grundy, Buck and Wing

1895 • 1 min • United States of America

A short of Mr. Grundy dancing. He's a Black man in a jockey outfit and there's someone in a horse costume dancing next to him.

Marche Ordinaire

1895 • 1 min

An ordinary walk.

Déjeuner du Chat

1895 • 1 min • France

A small boy brings a plate of milk to a big cat, grooming itself.

Lyon, place Bellecour

1895 • 1 min • France

Pedestrian and various vehicles traffic on Place Bellecour, in Lyon.

Apotheose

1895 • 1 min • Germany

The two inventors of the Bioskop, a sort of magic lantern that projected images so fast as to give the illusion of movement, bow to the camera at both sides of an empty screen. The scene was shown in continuity, at the end of the session, as if the producers and directors of the session were beading the public a farewell.

Félix Regnault assis sur un palanquin porté par des malgaches au pas

1895 • 1 min • France

Félix Regnault is carried on a palanquin by marching Malagasy men at the Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.