Most Viewed Year 1895 - 2

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...

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring one dog jumping through hoops and another dancing in a costume, which was considered lost...

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

The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.

The sinister mesmerist Svengali hypnotizes two characters, then dies abruptly in a Trilby segment from David Henderson's Aladdin, Jr. burlesque. Lost.

The sinister mesmerist Svengali hypnotizes a group of people and compels them to perform various humorous acts in a Trilby segment from David...

On 1 November 1895, the brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky presented their pioneer film work and legendary Bioscop program in Berlin′s...

Princess Ali, of Barnum and Bailey's circus, performs an Egyptian dance in the Edison Company's studio. As she dances, some musicians perform in the...

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

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

A man, holding a baby up in his hands, is standing next to a fishbowl. The baby is trying, in vain, to catch a goldfish with her bare hands.

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

A photographer has his camera all set up to take a gentleman's picture. The subject checks his face in a hand mirror, and the photographer poses him....

Directed by Birt Acres.

The Leigh Sisters perform a risqué Trilby-inspired dance with an umbrella. Scene from David Henderson's Aladdin, Jr. burlesque. Lost.

A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem), a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing...

Scene from a Trilby-themed stage play. Lost.

Part of the Wintergartenprogramm.

Former lightweight boxer Billy Edwards, now a trainer and writer of the sport, takes on a challenger named Warwick in an exhibition match. The match...

Eight circus performers known as the Grunato family perform their famous balancing act.