Movies 1895 Page 2

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

Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.

Part of the Wintergartenprogramm.

Oscar de Raoul demonstrates a bendy walk.

In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dance emphasizes the movement of...

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...

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

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...

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

An ordinary walk.

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

Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.

A man performs tricks on a theatre stage with a bowler hat and a billiards ball in equilibrium on his arms and body.

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

A man, holding a baby up in his hands, is standing next to a fishbowl. The baby is trying, in vain, to catch a goldfish with her bare hands.

Scene from a Trilby-themed stage play. Lost.

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

Pedestrian and various vehicles traffic on Place Bellecour, in Lyon.

In the background is a house. In the foreground, a groom holds the reins of a sleek black horse that stands in profile. A tall man, dressed in a...

Princess Ali, of Barnum and Bailey's circus, performs an Egyptian dance in the Edison Company's studio. As she dances, some musicians perform in the...

The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.

Directed by W.K.L Dickson.

A lost film of two boxers.

The Nicholas Sisters perform a "split dance" from a Koster & Bial’s Music Hall stage production.