Most Viewed Year 1895 - 3

Directed by Birt Acres.

Eight circus performers known as the Grunato family perform their famous balancing act.

On 1 November 1895, the brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky presented their pioneer film work and legendary Bioscop program in Berlin′s...

Four men stand holding what appears to be a blanket, while one wearing a hat stands watching. A sixth man then runs towards them and attempts to jump...

Lost film by Kazimierz Prószyński. A shot of people walking on Franciscan Street.

The participants are natives of Ceylon. Their dance is very interesting being so different from Western ideas of harmonies of motion.

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

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

A western short depicting the execution of a horse thief by a group of enraged cowboys. This film is considered to be lost.

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.

Directed by W.K.L Dickson.

An 1895 British short black and white silent comedy film featuring two drunken men and a boy squabbling in a small bar.

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...

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring one dog jumping through hoops and another dancing in a costume, which was considered lost...

An early Kinora demonstration film.

Short film about the opening of the Kiel Canal in 1895. The Emperor arrives at the rail station.

A policeman catches a pickpocket with the assistance of a passing a sailor.

A Senegalese woman carries a weight on her head at the Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.

A Senegalese woman carries a child on her back at the Exposition Ethnographique de l'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.

Oscar de Raoul demonstrates a bendy walk.