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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
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
Directed by W.K.L Dickson.
A West Indian Woman Bathing a Baby
Directed by Birt Acres.
The German Emperor Reviewing His Troops
A short of Mr. Grundy dancing. He's a Black man in a jockey outfit and there's someone in a horse costume dancing next to him.
James Grundy, Buck and Wing
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
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
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...
Billy Edwards and the Unknown
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
Incident at Clovelly Cottage, also known as Incident Outside Clovelly Cottage, Barnet, shot by Birt Acres and produced by Acres and his collaborator...
Incident at Clovelly Cottage
Four men at work in a forge. The uses hammers and and anvil to beat metal.
New Blacksmith Shop
Part of the Wintergartenprogramm.
Komisches Reck
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...
The Derby 1895
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
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 Senegalese woman carries a weight on her head at the Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.
Femme Ouolofe (Sénégal) en marche avec poids sur sa tête
Two men in white leotards and tights, and black slips over it, wrestle on a theatre stage.
Ringkämpfer
On 1 November 1895, the brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky presented their pioneer film work and legendary Bioscop program in Berlin′s...
Wintergartenprogramm
Oscar de Raoul demonstrates a bendy walk.
Marche en Flexion (Oscar de Raoul)
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 Black man waling at the Exposition Ethnographique de l'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.
Homme Noir, Marche, Exposition Ethnographique de l'Afrique Occidentale au Champ-de-Mars à Paris