1895 Movies

The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.

Scene represents section of the interior of a Chinese Opium Den.

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring one dog jumping through hoops and another dancing in a costume, which was considered lost un...

Four men at work in a forge. The uses hammers and and anvil to beat metal.

Directed by Birt Acres.

Samoan Islanders from Barnum & Bailey's Circus perform a dance.

The Leigh Sisters perform a risqué Trilby-inspired dance with an umbrella. Scene from David Henderson's Aladdin, Jr. burlesque. Lost.

Scene from a Trilby-themed stage play. Lost.

The sinister mesmerist Svengali hypnotizes a group of people and compels them to perform various humorous acts in a Trilby segment from David Henderso...

A short of Mr. Grundy dancing. He's a Black man in a jockey outfit and there's someone in a horse costume dancing next to him.

Directed by W.K.L Dickson.

A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem),a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing...

The participants are natives of Ceylon. Their dance is very interesting being so different from Western ideas of harmonies of motion.

A group of men, identified as "Muslims of Saint-Louis," at the Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.

An early Kinora demonstration film.

Anonymous performer for Edison Manufacturing Co.

A lost film of two boxers.

Lost film by Kazimierz Prószyński. A shot of people walking on Franciscan Street.

A native dance peculiar to India. Very odd and interesting. Strange costumes and stranger motions.

A French squadron leader runs with bent legs.