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Hand-color. Silent. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/301943
Serpentine Dance
The best-known "name" train of its day behind the most famous of all 4-4-0 locomotives, the 999---synonymous with speed in the early years of the...
Empire State Express
Early short of a snowball fight in late 19th century Milan, Italy
Snowball Fight
Arrival of a railway train.
Ankunft eines Eisenbahnzuges
People being fully dressed walking on the beach.
Brighton Beach
A tram passes by a couple of times.
Exposition nationale suisse. Palais des beaux-arts
Another ordinary street scene.
Place de la Comédie
The first X-ray cinematograph film ever taken, shown by Dr. MacIntyre at the London Royal Society (1896 and 1909). X-ray pictures of a frog knee...
Dr. Macintyre's X-Ray Film
The 1896 film Défilé du 38e régiment du génie à Madrid (Parade of the 38th Regiment of Engineers in Madrid) is a...
Parade of the 38th Regiment of Engineers in Madrid
Performance of a ballet - was found among the films collected by Gregorio Antonino María Sagarmínaga
Ballet sur scène avec orchestre
Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Vienna Street Scenes
A bullfight in Mexico.
Bullfight
Workers leave a factory in Paris, France. This Pathé film was produced in imitation of those of the Brothers Lumière.
Exit from the Factory
A tram arrives to pick up passengers.
Tramway à vapeur et passagers
Soldiers sit down and they're served food.
Soupe des soldats
"Shows papa walking the floor with a crying baby in his arms. An exceedingly laughable subject."
Why Papa Cannot Sleep
“Film could do more than record and recreate; it could invent new stories. Comic incidents like this were improvised from the earliest days,...
Wash Day Trouble
Short film from 1896.
Jeu du pot-cassé
This short film – less than two minutes long – captures the arrival of the first train from Cascais to Cais do Sodré.
Portuguese Railway Train
Jeux d'enfants dans une rue