1895 Movies

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

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...

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a farrier prepares a horse's hoof to receive...

A small boy brings a plate of milk to a big cat, grooming itself.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Part of the Wintergartenprogramm.

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

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...

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.

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...

Directed by Birt Acres.

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