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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