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On 1 November 1895, the brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky presented their pioneer film work and legendary Bioscop program in Berlin′s...
Wintergartenprogramm
A Black man waling at the Exposition Ethnographique de l'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.
Homme Noir, Marche, Exposition Ethnographique de l'Afrique Occidentale au Champ-de-Mars à Paris
A Senegalese woman carries a child on her back at the Exposition Ethnographique de l'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.
Wolof Woman (Senegal) Carrying a Child on Her Back
A group of men, identified as "Muslims of Saint-Louis," at the Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.
Démarche de Musulmans de Saint-Louis, Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale à Paris
Princess Ali, of Barnum and Bailey's circus, performs an Egyptian dance in the Edison Company's studio. As she dances, some musicians perform in the...
Princess Ali
A policeman catches a pickpocket with the assistance of a passing a sailor.
The Arrest of a Pickpocket
A French squadron leader runs with bent legs.
Course en Flexion (Oscar de Raoul)
Eight circus performers known as the Grunato family perform their famous balancing act.
Akrobatisches Potpourri
Two men in white leotards and tights, and black slips over it, wrestle on a theatre stage.
Ringkämpfer
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 Serpentine Dancer
Félix Regnault is carried on a palanquin by marching Malagasy men at the Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.
Félix Regnault assis sur un palanquin porté par des malgaches au pas
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...
Apotheose
The participants are natives of Ceylon. Their dance is very interesting being so different from Western ideas of harmonies of motion.
Silver Dance
Samoan Islanders from Barnum & Bailey's Circus perform a dance.
Dance of Rejoicing
Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.
Italienischer Bauerntanz
Short film about the opening of the Kiel Canal in 1895
Kanalfeierlichkeiten
Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.
Kamarinskaja
A lost film of two boxers.
Young Griffo v. Battling Charles Barnett
An ordinary walk.
Marche Ordinaire
Short film about the opening of the Kiel Canal in 1895. The Emperor arrives at the rail station.
Nordostsee-Canal-Festlichkeiten: Empfang des Kaisers am Dammthorbahnhof
Anonymous performer for Edison Manufacturing Co.
Annabelle Butterfly Dance No. 3
The Nicholas Sisters perform a "split dance" from a Koster & Bial’s Music Hall stage production.
Nicholas Sisters Split Dance