Most Viewed Year 1896 - 6

King Umberto I and Queen Margherita of Savoy stepping down a staircase, followed by their escort, before climbing into a horse-drawn carriage.

Taken in 1896 on the Boulevard (upper Broadway) on the occasion of a bicycle parade in the heyday of the wheeling craze. Old-fashioned horse cars...

Three men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves drinks.

This scene of an African-American woman vigorously scrubbing a black baby was immensely popular with early audiences, and was featured on...

A short documentary clip released by Pathé Frères.

A man performs a balancing act with a ball and a pair of sticks.

Considered a remake of Lumière's La Voltige from 1895.

A small boy feeds his dog sugar cane by making him perform high jumps.

A cockfight.

A short film from the Lumière brothers, filmed in a Dresden street.

Lyon, Men rescue rabbits from flood.

Working men and women leave the Lumière factory, through the main gate. Three separate versions of this film exist, this is the second remake...

A street scene in Munich from the Lumière Brothers.