Most Viewed Year 1896 - 4

Friends and relatives playing a game of boules, arguing about who's team is winning.

Russian sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Fiodorovna, and President Felix Faure, parading down the Champs-Elysées in a carriage, followed by...

A group of black youths jumping from a dock into the water.

On the terrace of a villa, a violinist, two pianists and a singer are playing, until they are interrupted by a false note.

A small boat is approaching waterfalls, shrouded in thick fog, in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland.

A stationary camera looks west across Niagara Falls from the United States' side (the Niagara River rushes toward the falls from right to left)....

Actuality film. Late 19th century General Officer ranks and higher cross to a ship over a gangplank. As VIPs they meet some people which we don't...

Strong-man Eugene Sandow flexes his muscles and strikes a few poses in front of a black background. This was a short film shot by William K.L....

Made in 1896 during the flat racing season (March-October) at Stockton Racecourse, a former horse racing venue in Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire,...

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

A Lumière Brothers film showing a street scene in Budapest.

A woman dances - preserved in flipbook form.

The floods of the Saône river during the first week of November, 1896.

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...

Movement of pedestrians, cabs, carts and trams at the crossroads of two avenues.

Trilby lounges on a table with her shoes off, smoking, laughing, enjoying a piece of cake, and kissing her friend in a scene from the popular...

Two girls do one of their chores. Standing alongside a tree-lined farmhouse, two children who are about ten and four years old toss grain to a flock...