Most Viewed Year 1895 - 3

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

A man performs tricks on a theatre stage with a bowler hat and a billiards ball in equilibrium on his arms and body.

Two men, arguing about the content of a newspaper article, come to blows.

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

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

A small boy brings a plate of milk to a big cat, grooming itself.

A man and a woman, observed by others, are playing a game of Tric-trac, a French variant of Backgammon. During the course of the game, the man gets...

A Black man waling at the Exposition Ethnographique de l'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.

A western short depicting the execution of a horse thief by a group of enraged cowboys. This film is considered to be lost.

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

Former lightweight boxer Billy Edwards, now a trainer and writer of the sport, takes on a challenger named Warwick in an exhibition match. The match...

Anonymous performer for Edison Manufacturing Co.

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

The sinister mesmerist Svengali hypnotizes two characters, then dies abruptly in a Trilby segment from David Henderson's Aladdin, Jr. burlesque. Lost.

Directed by W.K.L Dickson.

An 1895 British short black and white silent comedy film featuring two drunken men and a boy squabbling in a small bar.

A lost film of two boxers.

Short film about the opening of the Kiel Canal in 1895

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

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...