1895 Movies

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...

The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.

A policeman catches a pickpocket with the assistance of a passing a sailor.

By Fiji Islanders. A peculiar dance by genuine savages, dressed or rather undressed, in their native garb. The revel takes its name from the paddles t...

Samoan Islanders from Barnum & Bailey's Circus perform a dance.

Directed by Birt Acres.

Lost film by Kazimierz Prószyński. A shot of people walking on Franciscan Street.

An 1895 British short black and white silent comedy film featuring two drunken men and a boy squabbling in a small bar.

Scene represents section of the interior of a Chinese Opium Den.

The participants are natives of Ceylon. Their dance is very interesting being so different from Western ideas of harmonies of motion.

Four men at work in a forge. The uses hammers and and anvil to beat metal.

Two men, arguing about the content of a newspaper article, come to blows.

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring one dog jumping through hoops and another dancing in a costume, which was considered lost un...

Directed by W.K.L Dickson.

A lost film of two boxers.

Anonymous performer for Edison Manufacturing Co.

The Nicholas Sisters perform a "split dance" from a Koster & Bial’s Music Hall stage production.

A native dance peculiar to India. Very odd and interesting. Strange costumes and stranger motions.

Short film about the opening of the Kiel Canal in 1895. The Emperor arrives at the rail station.

Short film about the opening of the Kiel Canal in 1895