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Made in 1896 during the flat racing season (March-October) at Stockton Racecourse, a former horse racing venue in Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire,...
Stockton Races
A "gigantic demonstration of the Business Men's Republican and Sound Money Association" on 10/31/1896, opposing "Free Silver" Democrats in the...
Sound Money Parade
From the BFI Collection, this film is actually two films spliced together into one. The first is Birt Acres' work 'A Corner of Barnet Fair' which is...
A Corner of Barnet Fair
A Serpentine dance performance, possibly featuring Loie Fuller (though the record is unclear). While the film is lost, there is a new digital version...
A Serpentine Dance
Short documentary film produced by Eugène Pirou.
Loading rubble
In commercial sales catalogs from the Société L. Gaumont et Cie, this film (cataloged under "Vues animées") is credited to the...
Les Concierges
Lost film by Kazimierz Prószyński. A shot of people walking on Ujazdow Avenue.
Ujazdów Avenue
Governor Thomas Lord Brassey and his entourage walk past, under the watchful eye of the police and the cheers of the crowd.
Arrivée du gouverneur
This was one of a number of films made to exploit the filmic possibilities of flowing water in the wake of the popular appeal of Rough Sea at Dover.
Breakers
Skladanowsky Brothers, the inventors of the "Living Photographs"
Apotheose II
In a sunny open air setting with a background of high, deep foliage trees, and a white-walled storeyed house, an acrobat with light shirt and...
No Jardim
Remake of the Louis Lumière film, shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin
L'arroseur arrosé
Yarmouth Fishing Boats Leaving Harbour is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent documentary film, directed by Birt Acres, featuring a fleet of...
Yarmouth Fishing Boats Leaving Harbour
Young boys going into the sea water by Brighton's West Pier in the UK to pick up pennies thrown in by people on the pier.
Boys Scrambling For Pennies
Le tsar Nicolas II à Paris
Persimmon winning the 1896 Epsom Derby. Not to be confused with 'The Derby 1985' from the same director.
Persimmons Winning the Derby
Two boxers from the French city of Joinville have a boxing contest in front of the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin
A French Boxing Contest
A dramatic dance, filmed by Paul Nadar in 1898. Preserved by Langlois' Cinematheque.
Mademoiselle Zambelli de l'Opéra
A train pulls into the station, and the crowd of travelers invades the dock.
Arrival of a Train at Melbourne
One of the many performances of the Serpentine Dance that was recorded on film, shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin and starring Miss...
Danse serpentine
Military parade shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin
Défilé d'un régiment (musique en tête)
Les Deux Gosses