Most Viewed Year 1895 - 3

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

A western short depicting the execution of a horse thief by a group of enraged cowboys. This film is considered to be lost.

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

Two men in white leotards and tights, and black slips over it, wrestle on a theatre stage.

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

A short of Mr. Grundy dancing. He's a Black man in a jockey outfit and there's someone in a horse costume dancing next to him.

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

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

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...

Félix Regnault is carried on a palanquin by marching Malagasy men at the Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.

A group of men, identified as "Muslims of Saint-Louis," at the Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.

Short film about the opening of the Kiel Canal in 1895

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...

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

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

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a farrier prepares a horse's hoof to...

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

A Black man waling at the Exposition Ethnographique de l'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.

An early Kinora demonstration film.

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