An 1895 British short black and white silent comedy film featuring two drunken men and a boy squabbling in a small bar.
Untitled Kinetoscope Comedy
Four men at work in a forge. The uses hammers and and anvil to beat metal.
New Blacksmith Shop
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...
Apotheose
The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.
Opening of the Kiel Canal
A group of men, identified as "Muslims of Saint-Louis," at the Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.
Démarche de Musulmans de Saint-Louis, Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale à Paris
Oscar de Raoul demonstrates a bendy walk.
Marche en Flexion (Oscar de Raoul)
A western short depicting the execution of a horse thief by a group of enraged cowboys. This film is considered to be lost.
A Frontier Scene
A French squadron leader runs with bent legs.
Course en Flexion (Oscar de Raoul)
A young woman dancer with large, flowing robes, swirls round herself quickly, making her light robe flow around her like a butterfly's wings.
The Serpentine Dancer
A man performs tricks on a theatre stage with a bowler hat and a billiards ball in equilibrium on his arms and body.
The Juggler
A Senegalese woman carries a child on her back at the Exposition Ethnographique de l'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.
Wolof Woman (Senegal) Carrying a Child on Her Back
A Black man waling at the Exposition Ethnographique de l'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.
Homme Noir, Marche, Exposition Ethnographique de l'Afrique Occidentale au Champ-de-Mars à Paris
Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.
Kamarinskaja
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 Derby 1895
Short film about the opening of the Kiel Canal in 1895
Kanalfeierlichkeiten
A man and a kangaroo stand up in front of each other with boxing gloves, and simulate a boxing match on a theatre stage.
The Boxing Kangaroo
An ordinary walk.
Marche Ordinaire
Short film about the opening of the Kiel Canal in 1895. The Emperor arrives at the rail station.
Nordostsee-Canal-Festlichkeiten: Empfang des Kaisers am Dammthorbahnhof
The participants are natives of Ceylon. Their dance is very interesting being so different from Western ideas of harmonies of motion.
Silver Dance
By Fiji Islanders. A peculiar dance by genuine artists, dressed or rather undressed, in their native garb. The revel takes its name from the paddles...
Paddle Dance
Samoan Islanders from Barnum & Bailey's Circus perform a dance.
Dance of Rejoicing
Anonymous performer for Edison Manufacturing Co.
Annabelle Butterfly Dance No. 3
