Most Viewed Year 1896 - 1

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and...

In a medieval castle, a dark magician thought to be Mephistopheles conjures up a series of bizarre creatures and events in order to torment a pair of...

A male lion, right next to bars that are about 6 or 8 inches apart, keenly watches a uniformed zoo attendant toss small morsels of food into the...

A newlywed couple in front of their wedding-bed after their wedding. The woman undresses in front of her husband. A French erotic short film...

A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. This film is lost or never existed. Copies...

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

Mexicans lassoing a horse.

Poor pedestrian, horse drawn carts, wagons and bus travel across bridge at Sunderland, Tyne and Wear.

A battalion, preceded by three riders and a military marching band, parades in front of the crowd. A man is manoeuvring a handcart bearing the...

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards...

Made in 1896 during the flat racing season (March-October) at Stockton Racecourse, a former horse racing venue in Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire,...

Circulation of passers-by and cars in the paved street on the occasion of the Tsar's coronation.

Wilhelm II and Nicholas II, on horseback, parade in front of the cheering crowd, during the inauguration ceremony of William I's monument in Breslau,...

A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.

A black and white short from the Lumière brothers in which a crowds is filmed at the Place de l'Opèra in Paris.

Based on a real event that occurred between two deputies, in Chapultepec Park.

Three women get in a horse-drawn carriage, as servants load luggage on the roof, before it pulls away.