The best movies 1896 Pagina 22

Two unidentified actresses on stage; one of them plays a male character dressed in a 16th-century costume, who is delighted by the dance of a...

Men walk by as a dog lays about. Just out of view, a crippled man is begging for money.

Shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin

Lost film by Kazimierz Prószyński. A shot of people walking on Ujazdow Avenue.

Possibly the oldest surviving film shot in Spain, depicts Spanish dancers frantically doing their thing.

Persimmon winning the 1896 Epsom Derby. Not to be confused with 'The Derby 1985' from the same director.

A wife dismisses a maid she hired when she finds her husband flirting with her. Allegedly the first film to ever use intertitles.

A group of schoolboys play in the snow after school, tackling one another and tumbling to the ground in a playful winter melee

Top-hatted pedestrians and horse-drawn traffic pass over Blackfriars Bridge in London.

Short documentary film produced by Eugène Pirou.

A large number of workers, mostly young women, leave by the front door of their work place at lunch time. The building has an impressive colonnaded...

An interesting view of the Thames River at Henley, during one of the annual boat races.

The film shows the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and is one of the earliest documentary recordings of the city.

Skladanowsky Brothers, the inventors of the "Living Photographs"

Governor Thomas Lord Brassey and his entourage walk past, under the watchful eye of the police and the cheers of the crowd.

Vaudeville dancer Amy Muller performs a portion of her stage routine, which features dancing on her toes. She dances on one toe for part of the...

A Serpentine dance performance, possibly featuring Loie Fuller (though the record is unclear). While the film is lost, there is a new digital version...

Two boxers from the French city of Joinville have a boxing contest in front of the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin

A train pulls into the station, and the crowd of travelers invades the dock.

In commercial sales catalogs from the Société L. Gaumont et Cie, this film (cataloged under "Vues animées") is credited to the...