Félicien Trewey, performing his spinning plates routine.

Members of the New York state militia enjoy some relaxing time during a meal break.

Circulation of passers-by and cars in the paved street on the occasion of the Tsar's coronation.

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...

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

Campinos on horseback drive small herds of cattle through the vast area of the traditional fair, before prospective buyers.

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

Félicien Trewey performs a trick by writing backwards the words "Ladies and gentlemen, my grateful thanks" on a board.

A stationary camera looks across a busy corner toward a store front marked "The Divan." The words "des fees" are beneath. A cortege of Arabs, about...

People waiting in line for, what one can only assume, a Lumiere production.

A stationary camera placed amidships looks toward the round end of a 10- or 12-foot boiler that's been loaded onto the open deck. Three men climb...

People board a leisure ship while porters ship their luggage in the town of Évian-les-Bains.

A street scene in Berlin near Hallesches Tor.

The parade occupies only a small portion of the screen, the crowds are a seething mass that do really move and the Independence Bell is nowhere to be...

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

Considered a remake of Lumière's La Voltige from 1895.

A Tyrolean dancing couple, accompanied by a musician, perform a traditional folk dance in a park in Cologne.

directed by Lumière brothers. 1896

Porters bring goods into a warehouse.

A view of Piccadilly Circus in London.

"A battalion of New York's famous mounted police at inspection. They approach at break-neck gallop." - from the Edison Catalog

Lumiere street scene.

Two cocks fight whilst being watched by two men.

Several fire-carriages, presumably heading to a fire.

100 seconds-long six-scene footage consisting of selected coronation ceremonies of the Russian Tsar (Emperor) Nicholas II. Shows distinguished guests...

Dangled precariously off a boat, a baby falls into the river. Many people on the bank quickly scramble to its rescue.

A lady watering the garden with a hose, a mischievous boy stops the flow of water until she looks for the cause, when he permits the water to flow,...

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....

Artist draws Thomas Edison.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

A short clip of United States military on horses

A look at the waterfalls of the Passaic River in the northern New Jersey city of Passaic.

A drunkard fooling around. Serious damage marks.

This film documents the 1896 Melbourne Cup horse race including footage of the crowd watching the race.