Most Viewed Year 1896

In a medieval castle, a dark magician thought to be Mephistopheles conjures up a series of bizarre creatures and events in order to torment a pair of...

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and...

A male lion, right next to bars that are about 6 or 8 inches apart, keenly watches a uniformed zoo attendant toss small morsels of food into the...

A woman and a young girl each carry containers of bird feed, and they toss occasional handfuls to the chickens and doves in the farmyard. Most of the...

An ostrich pulls a cart carrying young women wearing ostrich-feather hats.

The first travelling shot.

This film documents the 1896 Melbourne Cup horse race including footage of the crowd watching the race.

While the crowd slowly moves forward, a company of guards and the Imperial dais enter the church.

A short film of boats sailing in the New York Harbor

A stationary camera looks across Burgundy's river Sâone toward a small military encampment. Four horsemen enter the water in the foreground,...

Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards...

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

Geneva (Exhibition 1896): back to the barn.

A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. This film is lost or never existed. Copies...

Early short film