The best movies 1896 Pagina 5

Shot of Venice from the Canal.

Fishermen, sitting by a boat, mending their nets.

Two people are playing backgammon while others watch. The player cheats, his partner protests: the man closes the game box.

Dragoons parade.

Taken in 1896 on the Boulevard (upper Broadway) on the occasion of a bicycle parade in the heyday of the wheeling craze. Old-fashioned horse cars...

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

On the unloading platform, the burning coke is pushed out of the furnace. Workers extinguish it with water and break it into pieces. On the furnace...

The scene depicts the swans in the Parc de la Tête d’Or in Lyon, to whom the keeper is distributing food.

View not found (judging from the photo in the photographic plates, it is the continuation of the procession).

Pedestrians, carts and trams traffic, on Whitehall Street in New York.

East Side Drive, No. 1 (1896) is a brief, silent actual-city documentary directed by James H. White for Edison. Filmed on New York City’s East...

Show of Mexican ranchers catching cows.

Lumiere short

Sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna and their suite slowly walk down a staircase, preceded by a company of cuirassiers.

“This view was taken upon Mr. McKinley's lawn at his home in Canton, Ohio. Mr. McKinley appears walking across the lawn in company with his...

The camera shows a view of the American Falls and Goat Island.

King Nicholas II and Queen Alexandra Feodorovna and their entourage emerge from a cabin and pass in front of an orchestra.

Britain's first drama (i.e. non documentary) film.

Parade of chasseurs and spahis.

The dancer Fatima, well-known for her dancing shows at the World's Exhibition in 1893, performs for the camera. She opens her act by twirling around...