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poster Course en sacs
Course en sacs
(3.0/5)
1mn - Documentary
Shot in 1896, this playful actuality captures workers from the Lumière factory in Lyon competing in a sack race. The scene shows the participants’ comic struggles and falls, with onlookers enjoying the li…
poster Accordion Player
Accordion Player
1mn - Documentary
The last remaining film of Le Prince's LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera is a sequence of frames of his son, Adolphe Le Prince, playing a diatonic button accordion. It was recorded on the steps of the …
poster Barcelona Park at Twilight
Barcelona Park at Twilight
2mn - Documentary
Early short showing the titular park in around 2 minutes.
poster Ringkämpfer
Ringkämpfer
1mn - Documentary
Two men in white leotards and tights, and black slips over it, wrestle on a theatre stage.
poster Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory
1mn - Documentary
Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on 22 March 1895, it is often referred to as the first real motion picture ever made, although Louis Le Pri…
poster Driving with Greenland Dogs
Driving with Greenland Dogs
1mn - Documentary
Johan Carl Joensen, a Danish colonial manager in Greenland, drives his dog sled in Copenhagen’s Fælledparken. (stumfilm.dk)
poster Panorama du grand Canal pris d'un bateau
Panorama du grand Canal pris d'un bateau
1mn - Documentary
Filmed in 1896 by Alexandre Promio for the Lumière company, this short actuality presents one of the earliest traveling shots in cinema. With the camera mounted on a gondola, the film glides along Venice’…
poster Italienischer Bauerntanz
Italienischer Bauerntanz
1mn - Documentary
Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.
poster Coney Island at Night
Coney Island at Night
4mn - Documentary
A panorama of Coney Island, taken at night: the camera sweeps across the scene from a vantage point well above the area. It then moves in for closer views of Dreamland and Luna Park.
poster Pope Leo XIII Being Seated Bestowing Blessing
Pope Leo XIII Being Seated Bestowing Blessing
1mn - Documentary
Probably the first video of a Pope: Leo XIII sits in his chair with guards and attendants, then blesses the viewers.
poster Oil Gush Fire in Bibiheybat
Oil Gush Fire in Bibiheybat
(3.0/5)
1mn - Documentary
The film was filmed in Bibi-Heybat, a suburb of Baku (now the capital of Azerbaijan), during a fire at the Bibi-Heybat oil field. The film was shot on 35mm film by the Lumiere brothers in 1898. On August …
poster Die Serpentintänzerin
Die Serpentintänzerin
1mn - Documentary
A young woman dancer with large, flowing robes, swirls round herself quickly, making her light robe flow around her like a butterfly's wings.
poster Annie Oakley
Annie Oakley
1mn - Documentary, Western
A short Edison Black Maria studio film featuring famed sharpshooter Annie Oakley, known as “Little Sure Shot.” Born Phoebe Ann Oakley Mozee in Ohio in 1860, she rose to global fame performing with Buffalo…
poster Carga de rurales
Carga de rurales
1mn - Documentary
A clip by Gabriel Veyre showing horses galloping at a Mexican festival.
poster Panorama pendant l'ascension de la Tour Eiffel
Panorama pendant l'ascension de la Tour Eiffel
1mn - Documentary
Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.
poster Cheese Mites
Cheese Mites
2mn - Comedy, Documentary
A gentleman is here shown partaking of a little lunch of bread and cheese, and occasionally is seen to glance at his morning paper through a reading glass. He suddenly notices that the cheese is a little …
poster A Switchback Railway
A Switchback Railway
1mn - Documentary
The Switchback Railway was the forerunner of the roller coaster. Passengers sit in a small car which trundles up a swooping railway track then performs a 180 degree turn at its summit before swooping back…
poster Weaving Women
Weaving Women
1mn - Documentary
A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.
poster Boat Leaving the Port
Boat Leaving the Port
(3.0/5)
1mn - Drama, Documentary
In very bad weather and a stormy sea, a small boat manned by two men is trying to leave the harbor of La Ciotat, while several people are watching them from the nearby pier.
poster The Acrobatic Fly
The Acrobatic Fly
(3.2/5)
3mn - Documentary
Propped upon the tail-end of a match, a housefly performs astonishing feats, alternately juggling a series of objects - a blade of grass, a cork, a miniature dumbbell… Most extraordinary of all is the seq…
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