1895 Movies

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...

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

Directed by Birt Acres.

The Leigh Sisters perform a risqué Trilby-inspired dance with an umbrella. Scene from David Henderson's Aladdin, Jr. burlesque. Lost.

Scene from a Trilby-themed stage play. Lost.

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

An early Kinora demonstration film.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

Anonymous performer for Edison Manufacturing Co.

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

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

Oscar de Raoul demonstrates a bendy walk.

A lost film of two boxers.

A French squadron leader runs with bent legs.