1895 Movies

A French squadron leader runs with bent legs.

Two men, arguing about the content of a newspaper article, come to blows.

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring one dog jumping through hoops and another dancing in a costume, which was considered lost un...

A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem),a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing...

The participants are natives of Ceylon. Their dance is very interesting being so different from Western ideas of harmonies of motion.

Anonymous performer for Edison Manufacturing Co.

Directed by Birt Acres.

An early Kinora demonstration film.

Directed by W.K.L Dickson.

The sinister mesmerist Svengali hypnotizes a group of people and compels them to perform various humorous acts in a Trilby segment from David Henderso...

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

A lost film of two boxers.

A short of Mr. Grundy dancing. He's a Black man in a jockey outfit and there's someone in a horse costume dancing next to him.

Scene from a Trilby-themed stage play. Lost.

An ordinary walk.

A group of men, identified as "Muslims of Saint-Louis," at the Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.

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

Samoan Islanders from Barnum & Bailey's Circus perform a dance.

By Fiji Islanders. A peculiar dance by genuine savages, dressed or rather undressed, in their native garb. The revel takes its name from the paddles t...

Lost film by Kazimierz Prószyński. A shot of people walking on Franciscan Street.