Most Viewed Year 1896 - 25

“Film could do more than record and recreate; it could invent new stories. Comic incidents like this were improvised from the earliest days,...

Short film from 1896.

On a makeshift stage three pairs face-to-face in peasant clothes are dancing Minho's traditional step dance. The clothes are more close to...

A Lumière street scene of Paris showing the traffic of horse carriages.

A bullfight in Mexico.

Governor Thomas Lord Brassey and his entourage walk past, under the watchful eye of the police and the cheers of the crowd.

Lumiere panorama shot.

People being fully dressed walking on the beach.

Short documentary film produced by Eugène Pirou.

Short documentary film produced by Eugène Pirou.

This was one of a number of films made to exploit the filmic possibilities of flowing water in the wake of the popular appeal of Rough Sea at Dover.

People leaving the factory.

The earliest surviving footage of bustling Victorian Bradford. A girl stands centre, possibly selling something to passersby. A small brass band...

A tram passes by a couple of times.

"Shows papa walking the floor with a crying baby in his arms. An exceedingly laughable subject."