The best movies 1896

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and...

Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II ride past on horseback before the cheering crowd.

A crowd leaves the cinema and disperses into the street while cabs circulate or park.

In a medieval castle, a dark magician thought to be Mephistopheles conjures up a series of bizarre creatures and events in order to torment a pair of...

An abridged version of the tale of Rip Van Winkle, a lazy American man, who wanders off one day with his dog Wolf into the Kaatskill mountains where...

“The scene depicts the collapse of a section of wall in a factory.” Three workers demolish a wall in the presence of Auguste...

They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

Pedestrian and various vehicles traffic on the square.

Trunks and crates are loaded onto the steamer “Genève” while the passengers board the deck via a second gangway.

Horses and their riders make their way into the compact and agitated crowd of spectators.

A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.

The German infantry parades in front of Nicholas II and Wilhelm II.

While an assistant tends the embers in the hearth, a farrier prepares the horse's hoof to receive a new shoe.

Traffic of pedestrians, trams, horse-drawn carriages and carts at the intersection of two streets.

“These two views were taken during the celebrations given in 1896 on the occasion of the millennium of the founding of the Kingdom of...

Dragoons split into two lines and dismount.

Reception of His Majesty the Emperor of Germany in Frankfurt am Main.

A Muslim prostrates himself, immediately gets up and repeats this gesture several times.

A woman feeds pigeons on the Piazza San Marco in Venice.