Most Viewed Year 1896 - 19

directed by Lumière brothers. 1896

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.

In a sunny open air setting with a background of high, deep foliage trees, and a white-walled storeyed house, an acrobat with light shirt and...

A group of ten infant girls are on a playground. They are in pairs, matched in height. They are doing an organised dance. Each pair twirls...

Herding cows

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

A friendly card game goes sour fast.

Francis Doublier does bicycle tricks in the street.

Short from (1896)

Bains sur le Rhône short film from 1896 by Louis Lumière.

Watering the Flowers (French: L'Arroseur) was an 1896 French short comedy film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by...

A Paris street scene.

Another street scene from the Lumiere company