1896 Movies

Fire brigade turnout in Berlin.

The cuirassiers mount their saddles and gallop off.

Shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin

Police detachment in Germany.

Early short of a snowball fight in late 19th century Milan, Italy

A bullfight in Mexico.

The earliest surviving footage of bustling Victorian Bradford. A girl stands centre, possibly selling something to passersby. A small brass band march...

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

Fire brigade response to an alarm in Berlin.

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

The short film Une allée du bois de Vincennes from 23 June 1896 (France)

Short film from 1896.

On a makeshift stage three pairs face-to-face in peasant clothes are dancing Minho's traditional step dance. The clothes are more close to Santarém fo...

The best-known "name" train of its day behind the most famous of all 4-4-0 locomotives, the 999---synonymous with speed in the early years of the cent...

Arrival of a railway train.

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

Workers leave a factory in Paris, France. This Pathé film was produced in imitation of those of the Brothers Lumière.

Soldiers sit down and they're served food.

“Film could do more than record and recreate; it could invent new stories. Comic incidents like this were improvised from the earliest days, and devel...