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A man strolling in a city street is attacked by three assailants. A policeman comes to the rescue and the men struggle with each other.
The Arrest of a Bookmaker
Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.
The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon
Directed by Birt Acres.
The German Emperor Reviewing His Troops
Four men at work in a forge. The uses hammers and and anvil to beat metal.
New Blacksmith Shop
On 1 November 1895, the brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky presented their pioneer film work and legendary Bioscop program in Berlin′s...
Wintergartenprogramm
A butcher puts a full-grown live pig into his large box-like machine. Moments later, he draws out a full range of pork products, many already...
The Mechanical Butcher
A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem), a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing...
Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist, Sketching Kaiser Wilhelm II
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.
James Grundy, Buck and Wing
An 1895 British short black and white silent comedy film featuring two drunken men and a boy squabbling in a small bar.
Untitled Kinetoscope Comedy
A young woman dancer with large, flowing robes, swirls round herself quickly, making her light robe flow around her like a butterfly's wings.
The Serpentine Dancer
A policeman catches a pickpocket with the assistance of a passing a sailor.
The Arrest of a Pickpocket
An early Kinora demonstration film.
Animated Portrait Shot by L and A Lumière
Part of the Wintergartenprogramm.
Komisches Reck
Scene from a Trilby-themed stage play. Lost.
Quartette
Lost film by Kazimierz Prószyński. A shot of people walking on Franciscan Street.
Franciscan Street
A man and a kangaroo stand up in front of each other with boxing gloves, and simulate a boxing match on a theatre stage.
The Boxing Kangaroo
A man performs tricks on a theatre stage with a bowler hat and a billiards ball in equilibrium on his arms and body.
The Juggler
Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.
Italienischer Bauerntanz
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...
Apotheose
A stationary camera, looking diagonally across a racetrack toward the infield, records the horses as they race past. Once they are out of view and...
The Derby 1895
Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.
Kamarinskaja
Princess Ali, of Barnum and Bailey's circus, performs an Egyptian dance in the Edison Company's studio. As she dances, some musicians perform in the...
Princess Ali