1896 Movies

Pedestrian traffic in a market.

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

A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.

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

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

Some men are playing a game on the beach, while some ladies with their backs to the cameras watch. A donkey cart ambles by.

Fishermen, sitting by a boat, mending their nets.

Félicien Trewey swirls a large white ribbon around him.

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

A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. Note: This is a LOST film; the existing film of the same name is the remake from 1900.

Riders passing by on horseback.

Pedestrian and vehicle traffic in a square.

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

People leave through the two main doors of the church and disperse onto the square.

Parade of a regiment of Turcos; their band marches at the head.

Pedestrian and various vehicles traffic on the square.

An ostrich pulls a cart carrying young women wearing ostrich-feather hats.

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