A man and a woman, observed by others, are playing a game of Tric-trac, a French variant of Backgammon. During the course of the game, the man gets...

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

Pedestrian and various vehicles traffic on Place Bellecour, in Lyon.

Félicien Trewey uses a basic prop to create comical hats and their accompanying caricatures.

The participants are natives of Ceylon. Their dance is very interesting being so different from Western ideas of harmonies of motion.

Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.

A man strolling in a city street is attacked by three assailants. A policeman comes to the rescue and the men struggle with each other.

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...

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

A young woman dancer with large, flowing robes, swirls round herself quickly, making her light robe flow around her like a butterfly's wings.

The two inventors of the Bioskop, a sort of magic lantern that projected images so fast as to give the illusion of movement, bow to the camera at...

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

Two men, arguing about the content of a newspaper article, come to blows.

Part of the Wintergartenprogramm.

By Fiji Islanders. A peculiar dance by genuine savages, dressed or rather undressed, in their native garb. The revel takes its name from the paddles...

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

A policeman catches a pickpocket with the assistance of a passing a sailor.

Four men at work in a forge. The uses hammers and and anvil to beat metal.

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...

Directed by W.K.L Dickson.