Movies 1896 Page 16

Boston, Commercial Street.

A group of ten infant girls are on a playground. They are in pairs, matched in height. They are doing an organised dance. Each pair twirls...

Native Mexican people grouped in front of the camera.

The surf pounds against a breakwater on which are visible several people standing. The wall looks to be about 20 feet above sea level and extend at...

Nimes, leaving the church.

Britain's first drama (i.e. non documentary) film.

This picture was taken at one of the curves on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, along the beautiful Susquehanna River. The train is seen rapidly...

A short look at Surf Ave., Coney Island.

Some men are playing a game on the beach, while some ladies with their backs to the cameras watch. A donkey cart ambles by.

A series of short black and white films from director William K.L. Dickson which chronicle the adventures of Rip Van Winkle.

Procession on a Budapest street.

“Mammy is washing her little pickaninny. She thrusts him, kicking and struggling, into a tub full of foaming suds.” (Edison film catalog)

Early film footage of fun fair workers and revelers at Devil's Dyke on the South Downs, taken by pioneer James Williamson in around 1896. At a fair...

A man and a girl approach, while three riders pass in rapid succession across the field.

The floods of the Saône river during the first week of November, 1896.

"A mother walks her baby in a small child's car, then puts him down and moves away a little by calling the baby who takes his first steps to join his...