Movies

Roma families eat, drink, dance, and play

Young people dance the Tarantella

Single shot of a column of Gordon Highlanders marching out of their camp at Ladysmith to meet General Buller's relief column.

Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.

Several members of European Royalty, including the Duke and Duchess of York, and Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, seated round a tea-table in the grounds...

A group of monks in procession carrying a large crucifix in Vatican City, 1898.

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

Short shot of the Bridge of Sighs in Venice with gondoliers

From Wikipedia: Sua Santità papa Leone XIII (Italian for "His Holiness Pope Leo XIII") is an 1898 short film directed by William Kennedy...

“Interior of Barber Shop. Man comes in, takes off his coat; sits down, smokes; is handed a paper by attendant, who points out a joke; both...

A remix of Dickson's Annabelle Butterfly Dance with a modern score.

Probably the first video of a Pope: Leo XIII sits in his chair with guards and attendants, then blesses the viewers.

"Firemen in working uniform, rubber coats, helmets, and boots. Thrilling rescue from burning building. Smoke effects are fine." - from the Edison...

Eugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company's film studio.

Recovering from a severe illness (likely typhoid), W.K.L. Dickson received word from London that the audience's enthusiasm for the military was...

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

A camera sits on top of a moving train, providing a panoramic view of Ealing (western London) as the train moves.

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

Taken in 1896 on the Boulevard (upper Broadway) on the occasion of a bicycle parade in the heyday of the wheeling craze. Old-fashioned horse cars...

Backward tracking shot of a train going from Bushey, England, near the end of its journey to Euston.