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Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.
Kamarinskaja
Directed by W.K.L Dickson.
A West Indian Woman Bathing a Baby
While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal...
The Blacksmiths
A photographer has his camera all set up to take a gentleman's picture. The subject checks his face in a hand mirror, and the photographer poses him....
Photograph
Part of the Wintergartenprogramm.
Komisches Reck
A small boy brings a plate of milk to a big cat, grooming itself.
Déjeuner du Chat
Félicien Trewey uses a basic prop to create comical hats and their accompanying caricatures.
Transformation by Hats
Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.
Italienischer Bauerntanz
Pedestrian and various vehicles traffic on Place Bellecour, in Lyon.
Lyon, place Bellecour
A man performs tricks on a theatre stage with a bowler hat and a billiards ball in equilibrium on his arms and body.
Der Jongleur
On 1 November 1895, the brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky presented their pioneer film work and legendary Bioscop program in Berlin′s...
Wintergartenprogramm
A policeman catches a pickpocket with the assistance of a passing a sailor.
The Arrest of a Pickpocket
Princess Ali, of Barnum and Bailey's circus, performs an Egyptian dance in the Edison Company's studio. As she dances, some musicians perform in the...
Princess Ali
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
The two inventors of the Bioskop, a sort of magic lantern that projected images so fast as to give the illusion of movement, bow to the camera at...
Apotheose
The participants are natives of Ceylon. Their dance is very interesting being so different from Western ideas of harmonies of motion.
Silver Dance
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
Scene represents section of the interior of a Chinese Opium Den.
Robetta and Doretto, No. 1
Four men at work in a forge. The uses hammers and and anvil to beat metal.
New Blacksmith Shop
Samoan Islanders from Barnum & Bailey's Circus perform a dance.
Dance of Rejoicing
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
The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.
Opening of the Kiel Canal