Most Viewed Year 1896 - 3

Men walk by as a dog lays about. Just out of view, a crippled man is begging for money.

Husband comes home late and wakes the wife. Based on a popular stage play.

Young boys going into the sea water by Brighton's West Pier in the UK to pick up pennies thrown in by people on the pier.

A woman and a young girl each carry containers of bird feed, and they toss occasional handfuls to the chickens and doves in the farmyard. Most of the...

Three young women dance in Drury Lane, London.

While the crowd slowly moves forward, a company of guards and the Imperial dais enter the church.

In front of a building, five carpenters are working on woodworking machines.

A series of short black and white films from director William K.L. Dickson which chronicle the adventures of Rip Van Winkle.

From the BFI Collection, this film is actually two films spliced together into one. The first is Birt Acres' work 'A Corner of Barnet Fair' which is...

The Boxing Kangaroo is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent documentary film, produced and directed by Birt Acres for exhibition on Robert W....

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

A servant persuades a cellist to play and his errant wife returns.

Brooklyn, Fulton Street

The Tsar visits the Russian embassy

A staged film where over 100 cyclists cycle towards the camera.

Three men are chopping and transporting firewood, among passers-by, on a square in Lausanne.

Film made at Hyde Park Corner in 1896 by an unknown filmmaker. It looks south west across Grosvenor Place. The southern wing of St George's Hospital...