Films and TV Shows from the 1890s

poster Annabelle Serpentine Dance
Annabelle Serpentine Dance
(3.3/5)
1mn - Documentary
In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dance emphasizes the movement of the flowing cloth. She moves to her right and left acr…
poster Backgammon Game
Backgammon Game
1mn - Documentary
A man and a woman, observed by others, are playing a game of Tric-trac, a French variant of Backgammon. During the course of the game, the man gets caught red-handed, which results in him closing the game…
poster Départ de cyclistes
Départ de cyclistes
(2.8/5)
1mn - Documentary
At the start line of the Lyon-Geneva bicycle race.
poster Chinese Laundry Scene
Chinese Laundry Scene
(2.8/5)
1mn - Crime, Comedy
The pursuit of Hop Lee by an irate policeman.
poster Une bataille dans le vieux Stockholm
Une bataille dans le vieux Stockholm
1mn - Documentary
A fight breaks out between two men in medieval Stockholm, Sweden.
poster The Surrender of Tournavos
The Surrender of Tournavos
(2.7/5)
1mn - Action, War, Drama
Three military men, seen inside a fortification, are firing on an unseen enemy force. The call for reinforcements but ladders appear signalling the enemy is about to overrun this position.
poster Adventures of William Tell
Adventures of William Tell
(3.1/5)
1mn - Comedy, Fantasy
The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and clay head on the statue, thus completing it. He places a…
poster Panorama from Top of a Moving Train
Panorama from Top of a Moving Train
(2.9/5)
1mn - Documentary
With the cameraman atop a moving train car the viewer is given a one minute glimpse of a French urban area.
poster Divers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine"
Divers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine"
(3.0/5)
1mn - Documentary
Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by curiously disproportionate fish.
poster The Kiss in the Tunnel
The Kiss in the Tunnel
(3.1/5)
1mn - Comedy, Romance
Produced and directed by George Albert Smith, the film shows a couple sharing a brief kiss as their train passes through a tunnel. The Kiss in the Tunnel is said to mark the beginnings of narrative editin…
poster The Devil in a Convent
The Devil in a Convent
(3.2/5)
3mn - Horror, Comedy, Fantasy
A priest is officiating at a convent, when suddenly he is transformed into the devil, who frightens away the nuns and turns the place into pandemonium.
poster Il Finto Storpio
Il Finto Storpio
1mn - Crime
Men walk by as a dog lays about. Just out of view, a crippled man is begging for money.
poster President McKinley's Inauguration
President McKinley's Inauguration
1mn -
This film was shot on March 4, 1897 and is historic because it was the first footage shot of a sitting American President.
poster Snowball Fight
Snowball Fight
(3.4/5)
1mn - Documentary, Comedy
Wintertime in Lyon. About a dozen people, men and women, are having a snowball fight in the middle of a tree-lined street. The cyclist coming along the road becomes the target of opportunity. He falls off…
poster Dr. Macintyre's X-Ray Film
Dr. Macintyre's X-Ray Film
1mn - Documentary
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 joint, a beating human heart and movements of the stomach.
poster Déjeuner du Chat
Déjeuner du Chat
1mn - Documentary
A small boy brings a plate of milk to a big cat, grooming itself.
poster Aquarium
Aquarium
(2.6/5)
1mn - Documentary
Different species of fish and frogs, inside an aquarium.
poster Komisches Reck
Komisches Reck
(2.7/5)
1mn - Comedy, Documentary
Part of the Wintergartenprogramm.
poster Brandvæsenet rykker ud
Brandvæsenet rykker ud
1mn -
At first this looks like another of those innumerable fire brigade movies of the era in which you saw the horses charging pellmell out of the firehouse, pulling the firemen and the equipment. Usually they…
poster Comic Encounter in the Djurgården
Comic Encounter in the Djurgården
1mn - Comedy
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 unique outdoor museum Skansen is located.