Most Viewed Year 1896 - 17

A train ride with a view from the back of the train.

Two unidentified actresses on stage; one of them plays a male character dressed in a 16th-century costume, who is delighted by the dance of a...

Early film footage of fun fair workers and revelers at Devil's Dyke on the South Downs, taken by pioneer James Williamson in around 1896. At a fair...

Mexicans doing a rodeo.

Street scene in Berlin.

A wife dismisses a maid she hired when she finds her husband flirting with her. Allegedly the first film to ever use intertitles.

Back from fishing, fishermen in a boat pull out sardines caught in the net.

Workers fill in a large hole left by an uprooted tree, while others pick up ropes.

Panoramic film from the Lumiere Catalogue.

Firefighters at the scene lay out hoses and prepare to fight a blaze.

Teasing tigers with meat.

Formed by the junction of Broadway, Sixth Avenue and 35th Street. The picturesque low roofed Herald building is plainly shown; also the passing...

The floods of the Saône river during the first week of November, 1896.

'The White Eyed Kaffir' performs with top hat.

Lancers parading, during the inauguration ceremony of William I's monument in Breslau, Germany (nowadays Wroclaw, Poland).

View of the Westminster Bridge.

A Tyrolean dancing couple, accompanied by a musician, perform a traditional folk dance in a park in Cologne.

Tsar Nicholas II arrives in Paris.