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An 1895 British short black and white silent comedy film featuring two drunken men and a boy squabbling in a small bar.
Untitled Kinetoscope Comedy
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...
Apotheose
Two men, arguing about the content of a newspaper article, come to blows.
Discussion
Directed by Birt Acres.
The German Emperor Reviewing His Troops
Part of the Wintergartenprogramm.
Komisches Reck
Scene from a Trilby-themed stage play. Lost.
Quartette
Lost film by Kazimierz Prószyński. A shot of people walking on Franciscan Street.
Franciscan Street
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...
Horse Trick Riders
On 1 November 1895, the brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky presented their pioneer film work and legendary Bioscop program in Berlin′s...
Wintergartenprogramm
A man performs tricks on a theatre stage with a bowler hat and a billiards ball in equilibrium on his arms and body.
The Juggler
A western short depicting the execution of a horse thief by a group of enraged cowboys. This film is considered to be lost.
A Frontier Scene
A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem), a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing...
Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist, Sketching Kaiser Wilhelm II
Eight circus performers known as the Grunato family perform their famous balancing act.
Akrobatisches Potpourri
A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring one dog jumping through hoops and another dancing in a costume, which was considered lost...
Performing Animals; or, Skipping Dogs
An early Kinora demonstration film.
Animated Portrait Shot by L and A Lumière
A man and a kangaroo stand up in front of each other with boxing gloves, and simulate a boxing match on a theatre stage.
The Boxing Kangaroo
Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.
Italienischer Bauerntanz
Oscar de Raoul demonstrates a bendy walk.
Marche en Flexion (Oscar de Raoul)
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.
The Arrest of a Bookmaker
Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.
Kamarinskaja
The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.
Opening of the Kiel Canal