Most Viewed Year 1895 - 1

Directed by Birt Acres.

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 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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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....

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

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

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

Pedestrian and various vehicles traffic on Place Bellecour, in Lyon.

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...

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.

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

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...

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.