Most Viewed Year 1895 - 2

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...

Anonymous performer for Edison Manufacturing Co.

A man and a kangaroo stand up in front of each other with boxing gloves, and simulate a boxing match on a theatre stage.

In very bad weather and a stormy sea, a small boat manned by two men is trying to leave the harbor of La Ciotat, while several people are watching...

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

In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dance emphasizes the movement of...

Félicien Trewey uses a basic prop to create comical hats and their accompanying caricatures.

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...

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

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

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal...

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.

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...

Former lightweight boxer Billy Edwards, now a trainer and writer of the sport, takes on a challenger named Warwick in an exhibition match. The match...

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

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...

A French squadron leader runs with bent legs.

A man performs tricks on a theatre stage with a bowler hat and a billiards ball in equilibrium on his arms and body.

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...