The best movies 1895 Pagina 2

Scene from a Trilby-themed stage play. Lost.

Directed by Birt Acres.

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

Several little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.

A butcher puts a full-grown live pig into his large box-like machine. Moments later, he draws out a full range of pork products, many already...

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

A man performs tricks on a theatre stage with a bowler hat and a billiards ball in equilibrium on his arms and body.

Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.

On 1 November 1895, the brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky presented their pioneer film work and legendary Bioscop program in Berlin′s...

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

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...

Part of the Wintergartenprogramm.

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

A young woman dancer with large, flowing robes, swirls round herself quickly, making her light robe flow around her like a butterfly's wings.

A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem), a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing...

An early Kinora demonstration film.

Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.

Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.

Eight circus performers known as the Grunato family perform their famous balancing act.

A man strolling in a city street is attacked by three assailants. A policeman comes to the rescue and the men struggle with each other.

A man and a kangaroo stand up in front of each other with boxing gloves, and simulate a boxing match on a theatre stage.

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...