The German Emperor Reviewing His Troops 1895
Directed by Birt Acres.
Directed by Birt Acres.
Eight circus performers known as the Grunato family perform their famous balancing act.
An early Kinora demonstration film.
Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.
A young woman dancer with large, flowing robes, swirls round herself quickly, making her light robe flow around her like a butterfly's wings.
Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.
A French squadron leader runs with bent legs.
Incident at Clovelly Cottage, also known as Incident Outside Clovelly Cottage, Barnet, shot by Birt Acres and produced by Acres and his collaborator Robert W. Paul in March 1895, was the "first successful motion picture film made in Britain" Considered lost since only a few frames have survived.
A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring one dog jumping through hoops and another dancing in a costume, which was considered lost until footage from an 1896 Fairground Programme was identified as being from this film.
Lost film by Kazimierz Prószyński. A shot of people walking on Franciscan Street.
Félix Regnault is carried on a palanquin by marching Malagasy men at the Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.
Two men, arguing about the content of a newspaper article, come to blows.
A Senegalese woman carries a child on her back at the Exposition Ethnographique de l'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.
An 1895 British short black and white silent comedy film featuring two drunken men and a boy squabbling in a small bar.
Four men at work in a forge. The uses hammers and and anvil to beat metal.
Short film about the opening of the Kiel Canal in 1895. The Emperor arrives at the rail station.
Oscar de Raoul demonstrates a bendy walk.
A Senegalese woman carries a weight on her head at the Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.
A Black man waling at the Exposition Ethnographique de l'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.
The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.