1895 Movies

A young woman dancer with large, flowing robes, swirls round herself quickly, making her light robe flow around her like a butterfly's wings.

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

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

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 b...

Two men in white leotards and tights, and black slips over it, wrestle on a theatre stage.

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

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 both...

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

A man and a woman, observed by others, are playing a game of Tric-trac, a French variant of Backgammon. During the course of the game, the man gets ca...

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

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

A policeman catches a pickpocket with the assistance of a passing a sailor.

Incident at Clovelly Cottage, also known as Incident Outside Clovelly Cottage, Barnet, shot by Birt Acres and produced by Acres and his collaborator R...

Part of the Wintergartenprogramm.

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.

Scene represents section of the interior of a Chinese Opium Den.

An 1895 British short black and white silent comedy film featuring two drunken men and a boy squabbling in a small bar.

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...

The sinister mesmerist Svengali hypnotizes two characters, then dies abruptly in a Trilby segment from David Henderson's Aladdin, Jr. burlesque. Lost.

Four men at work in a forge. The uses hammers and and anvil to beat metal.