Most Viewed Year 1895 - 2

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

Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.

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

An early Kinora demonstration film.

Pedestrian and horse-drawn vehicles traffic, across the Place des Cordeliers, in Lyon.

In the background is a house. In the foreground, a groom holds the reins of a sleek black horse that stands in profile. A tall man, dressed in a...

The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.

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...

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...

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

A man, holding a baby up in his hands, is standing next to a fishbowl. The baby is trying, in vain, to catch a goldfish with her bare hands.

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

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

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....

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

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

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

Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.

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