Tse shebiloeng haholo Selemo 1895

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on 22 March 1895, it is often referred to as...

A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised...

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...

A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution block and made to kneel down with her neck over...

A father, a mother and a baby are sitting at a table, on a patio outside. Dad is feeding Baby her lunch, while Mum is serving tea.

A photographer has his camera all set up to take a gentleman's picture. The subject checks his face in a hand mirror, and the photographer poses him....

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...

Several little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.

Part of the Wintergartenprogramm.

Directed by Birt Acres.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

A man and a kangaroo stand up in front of each other with boxing gloves, and simulate a boxing match on a theatre stage.

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

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