The best movies 1896

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...

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

“The watchful father disturbs a dream of bliss, and the bucolic lover is taught a lesson. He made a great hit.” (Edison film catalog)

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

Passers-by on a street market in Marseille.

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 fellow in a wide-brimmed hat, with a willowy stick for a rod and a baited hook, sits down on a plank hanging over a bridge above a stream. He...

The first Dutch fictional film. This very short silent slapstick comedy featured famous Dutch comedians Lion Solser and Piet Hesse. Considered lost.

Parade of a regiment of Turcos; their band marches at the head.

Released on October 4, 1896 in Lyon ( France ) under the title “ Fêtes de l'inauguration du monument de Guillaume Ier à Breslau :...

Movement of pedestrians, cabs, carts and trams at the crossroads of two avenues.

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

Footage of the visit of Tsar Nicholas II to Paris, shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin

These two views were taken during the celebrations given in 1896 on the occasion of the millennium of the foundation of the kingdom of Hungary....

Rumored to be shot by Georges Demenÿ.

A woman feeds pigeons on the Piazza San Marco in Venice.

Men and women take turns performing short Russian dance figures.

Turcos regiment parade.