1896 Movies

A wife dismisses a maid she hired when she finds her husband flirting with her. Allegedly the first film to ever use intertitles.

Shot in 1896 by a Lumière cameraman, this short actuality shows three horse-drawn carriages, escorted by liveried footmen and soldiers, arriving as part of the coronation festivities in Moscow. The passengers are identified as the Dowager Empress Maria Feodoro...

The guard makes a turn, music at the front, then lines up in front of the facade.

A man performs a balancing act with a ball and a pair of sticks.

The crowd gathered along the fence wave their hats at the passing riders, before slowly starting to clear.

Young people dive into the sea by jumping off a manmade wooden raft, while a small boat loaded with passengers passes by.

A parade of horsemen, accompanied by a few onlookers.

Boules game in Lyon

A train pulls into the station, and the crowd of travelers invades the dock.

Ten girls are dancing in a courtyard.

Boston, Commercial Street.

Short documentary film produced by Eugène Pirou.

A servant persuades a cellist to play and his errant wife returns.

Possibly the oldest surviving film shot in Spain, depicts Spanish dancers frantically doing their thing.

Traffic on the bridge.

Two roosters are fighting in front of three men crouching around the fighting area.

View of a group of Milanese rowers. The video was made by the operator Giuseppe Filippi, the official dealer of the Lumière Brothers for the Italian territory.

Two women perform a choreographed 'Russian' dance routine.