The best movies 1896 Pagina 23

Military parade shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin

This film documents the 1896 Melbourne Cup horse race including footage of the crowd watching the race.

Vaudeville dancer Amy Muller performs a portion of her stage routine, which features dancing on her toes. She dances on one toe for part of the...

This is the first film ever filmed in Stockholm, Sweden. The part of the city featured is Djurgården (Tiergarten in German). It is where the...

Shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin

Seen but not heard? Three children get up to mischief after their mother puts them to bed in this Victorian entertainment. This was one of numerous...

In a medium long shot, we see a view of the Seine, with some logs floating. Perhaps they are rubbish. Swimmers enter from the right, get as far as...

An interesting view of the Thames River at Henley, during one of the annual boat races.

The film shows the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and is one of the earliest documentary recordings of the city.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

Parade of an engineering regiment.

A group of schoolboys play in the snow after school, tackling one another and tumbling to the ground in a playful winter melee

A large number of workers, mostly young women, leave by the front door of their work place at lunch time. The building has an impressive colonnaded...

The earliest surviving footage of bustling Victorian Bradford. A girl stands centre, possibly selling something to passersby. A small brass band...

The cuirassiers mount their saddles and gallop off.

Campinos on horseback drive small herds of cattle through the vast area of the traditional fair, before prospective buyers.

Film made at Hyde Park Corner in 1896 by an unknown filmmaker. It looks south west across Grosvenor Place. The southern wing of St George's Hospital...

Lumiere panorama shot.

An actuallity film of a fairground carousel in action. Filmmaker unknown but it has been suggested it is R.W. Paul. The film was made on Hampstead...

Pedestrian traffic in the street.