most Viewed annos singulos 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...

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. This film is lost or never existed. Copies...

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

Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards...

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...

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

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 butcher puts a full-grown live pig into his large box-like machine. Moments later, he draws out a full range of pork products, many already...

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...

The first travelling shot.

Three men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves drinks.

Strong-man Eugene Sandow flexes his muscles and strikes a few poses in front of a black background. This was a short film shot by William K.L....

This film documents the 1896 Melbourne Cup horse race including footage of the crowd watching the race.

The film reproduces a magic act Méliès performed at his Paris theater-of-illusions, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin. Conjuring...

A soldier stands guard at a sentry box and leaves it unprotected for a moment, a moment that two men take advantage of to put up posters where it is...

Young people dive into the sea by jumping off a manmade wooden raft, while a small boat loaded with passengers passes by.

Pedestrians, carts and trams traffic, on Whitehall Street in New York.

Passengers leaving a ship in Lyon.

Several competitors take part in a friendly sack race, with widely varying degrees of success.