Most Viewed Year 1896

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and...

A newlywed couple in front of their wedding-bed after their wedding. The woman undresses in front of her husband. A French erotic short film...

In a medieval castle, a dark magician thought to be Mephistopheles conjures up a series of bizarre creatures and events in order to torment a pair of...

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.

A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages.

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

A soldier stands guard at a sentry box and leaves it unprotected for a moment, a moment that two men take advantage of to put up posters where it is...

A short film of boats sailing in the New York Harbor

This lost film presumably features a train arriving at Vincennes station, eastern Paris. (Until 2020, was confused with Arrival at Joinville...

The surf pounds against a breakwater on which are visible several people standing. The wall looks to be about 20 feet above sea level and extend at...

Filmed in 1896 by Alexandre Promio for the Lumière company, this short actuality presents one of the earliest traveling shots in cinema. With...

The water beats relentlessly against the Hell's Mouth (Boca do Inferno), one of the main natural attractions of Lisbon's west coast, filmed from...

“Mammy is washing her little pickaninny. She thrusts him, kicking and struggling, into a tub full of foaming suds.” (Edison film catalog)

Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards...

Considered a remake of Lumière's La Voltige from 1895.

The royal family of Italy go for a walk in the park.

Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a...

A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.

Early film footage of fun fair workers and revelers at Devil's Dyke on the South Downs, taken by pioneer James Williamson in around 1896. At a fair...