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...

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...

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

Mexican vaqueros (cattle herders) in Guadalajara guide their horses through water.

On the unloading platform, the burning coke is pushed out of the furnace. Workers extinguish it with water and break it into pieces. On the furnace...

Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a...

A quarrel between two women that a man attempts to separate.

The first Dutch fictional film. This very short silent slapstick comedy featured famous Dutch comedians Lion Solser and Piet Hesse. Considered lost.

Two babies, sitting next to each other in their chairs, are playing with their toys, but one of them takes a doll from the other, causing the latter...

Traffic of pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages; passage of a steam-powered wagon pulling a tipper.

“The watchful father disturbs a dream of bliss, and the bucolic lover is taught a lesson. He made a great hit.” (Edison film catalog)

A clip by Gabriel Veyre showing horses galloping at a Mexican festival.

Part of a documentary-type projections made in Argentina by Federico Figner.